HC Deb 07 December 1948 vol 459 c34W
95. Mrs. Manning

asked the Minister of National Insurance why it is necessary for an applicant for sickness or other benefit, to produce a court order in support of an increase of benefit, on account of an adopted child.

Mr. J. Griffiths

Where increase of benefit is claimed on the ground of adoption the claimant must prove that the child has been legally adopted; the simplest way of establishing this is to produce the adoption order. Other methods are not excluded, but require ascertainment of a number of particulars before the claim can be admitted.