§ Mr. Cabornasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps his Department is taking to encourage those people so entitled to claim supplementary benefit.
§ Mr. WhitneyWe continue to seek to promote take-up by issuing a claim form to all retirement pensioners and widows, all unemployed claimants and all sickness benefit claimants, and by co-operating as fully as possible at local level with well-organised take-up campaigns mounted by local authorities. We have also introduced a free phone information and advice service throughout the whole country except at present London postal districts.