§ 64. Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Minister of Social Security if she will take steps to enable divorced women to receive maintenance payments and additional social service grants as a regular payment by presenting an allowance book at a post office.
§ Mr. PentlandSuch a procedure is already in operation in relation to a divorced woman with a maintenance order made in the magistrates' court, who is entitled to receive supplementary benefit. She is invited to authorise the magistrates' clerk to pay to the Ministry any money received by him under the order. This enables the Ministry to issue an allowance book, encashable at a post office, for the woman's full entitlement to benefit without regard to whether the order is paid regularly, intermittently or not at all. An order made in the High62W Court may be registered in the magistrates' court when the same procedure may be applied.