Benefit Forms

HC Deb 08 December 1988 vol 143 cc322-4W

Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the forms which have to be filled in for each benefit administered by his Department; and how many pages and how many questions are found in each.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

A list of the principal claim forms for benefits administered by the Department is as follows. The other information requested is not readily available and could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.

Main Benefit	Form No.	Details
Income support	B1	Income support for people who are unemployed
	B1(Student)	Income Support for Students who are unemployed (during long vacations)
	B71D	Income Support for people involved in Trade Disputes
	SP1	Income Support for people who are over retirement age
	A1	Income Support—for people who are sick or looking after children or sick or elderly relatives
Social Fund	SF100	Maternity Payment—postal claim form

Main Benefit	Form No.	Details
	SF200	Funeral Payment—postal claim form
	SF300	Application for Budgeting Loan or Community Care Grant
	SF400	Crisis Loan application form
Widows Benefit	BW1	Application for Widows Pension, Widows Payment and/or Widowed Mothers Allowance
Retirement Pensions	BR1	Application for Retirement Pension
Child Benefits	CH2	Initial Claim for Child Benefit including One Parent Benefit if appropriate
	CH12	Claim for Child Benefit for additional children
	BG1	Claim for Guardians Allowance if a person takes an orphaned child into the family
Incapacity Benefits	SC1	Claim for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) or Sickness Benefit self certificated sickness
	SSP1(E)	Claim for Sickness or Invalidity Benefit for people who do not qualify for SSP from work
	SP1(T)	Claim for Sickness or Invalidity Benefit when SSP from work runs out
	SDA1 part of leaflet NI252	Claim for Severe Disablement Allowance (for people below retirement age who cannot work because of illness or disablement)
Maternity pay	MA1	Claim for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) from work or Maternity Allowance
Family Credit	FC1	Family Credit—postal claim form
Agency Benefits	AG1	Claim for help with National Health Service charges and travelling expenses
Attendance Allowance	NI251	Attendance Allowance
	NI212	Invalid Care Allowance—for people looking after someone who has Attendance Allowance
Injury and Disability	BI104	Constant Attendance Allowance for people who need constant attention because of the effects of an industrial accident or disease
	BI103	Reduced Earnings Allowance for people who cannot return to their former occupation because of the effects of an industrial accident or disease
	BI100A	IIDB for Industrial Accidents
	BI100(OA)	IIDB for Occupational Asthma
	BI100B	IIDB for a Prescribed Industrial Disease
	BI100C	Claim for further award of Unemployability Supplement—the initial award does not need a separate claim form
	BI100(OD)	IIDB for Occupational Deafness
	BI100P	IIDB for Pneumoconiosis (certain cases only)
	BI100Pn	IIDB for Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis, Silicosis and Asbestosis

Main Benefit	Form No.	Details
	WS1	Claim for Workmens
		Compensation Supplement—for people who contracted industrial diseases before 5 July 1948
	PNIA	Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Disease Benefit for people who contracted the relevant diseases as a result of employment before 5 July 1948
	NI225	Claim for Mobility Allowance