War Pensioners

HC Deb 11 November 1996 vol 285 cc98-9W

Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security which local authorities in the year ended March 1995 had a policy in addition to the statutory scheme(a) of disregarding all of a war pensioner's income when assessing housing and council tax benefit, (b) of no disregard and (c) of disregarding an element of the income; and for each of those named in (c) what was the level of disregard applied, the cost to each authority of applying the disregard and the number of war pensioners in each authority to whom the disregard applied. [3591]

Mr. Roger Evans

The information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.