HC Deb 06 May 1994 vol 242 c690W
Mr. Bradley

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of national average earnings is represented by the current average payment of invalidity benefit.

Mr. Scott

The average amount of invalidity benefit in payment on 4 April 1992, the latest date for which information is available was £75–45(i). This represents 24.8 per cent. of the gross average national earnings figure, £304.60(ii), for April 1992.

Notes:

  1. (i) Based on a 1 per cent. sample of claimants in Great Britain, rounded to the nearest thousand.
  2. (ii) Figure obtained from "The New Earnings Survey (GB)", April 1992.
  3. (iii) Invalidity Benefit was uprated by 4.1 per cent. from 9 April 1992.

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