§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the cost of up-rating in line with inflation the basic state pension of those pensioners living abroad on frozen pensions, for each of the next 10 years. [111108]
§ Mr. RookerThe precise information requested is not available.
Benefit Disregard (£) Weekly hours at £3.60 Weekly hours at £3.20 Weekly hours at £3.00 Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance 15.00 1.39 1.56 1.67 110.00 2.78 3.13 3.33 115.00 4.17 4.69 5.00 Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit3 15.00 1.39 1.56 1.67 110.00 2.78 3.13 3.33 115.00 4.17 4.69 5.00 121.05 5.85 6.58 7.02 125.00 6.94 7.81 8.33 126.05 7.24 8.14 8.68 136.05 10.01 11.27 12.02 Severe Disablement Allowance4 158.00 16.11 18.13 19.33 Invalid Care Allowance 150.00 13.89 15.63 16.67 Incapacity Benefit4 158.00 16.11 18.13 19.33 War Pension Unemployability Supplement 23,016.00 16.11 18.13 19.33 Industrial Injuries Benefit Unemployability Supplement 23,016.00 16.11 18.13 19.33 1 Per week 2 Per annum 3 A child care earnings disregard of up to £70 per week for families who pay for child care for one child of qualifying age, and £105 for families who pay for child care for more than one child of qualifying age is also available in Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit. It is available to two earner couples, lone parents and couples where the non-working partner is incapacitated and is in addition to the standard earnings disregards. 4 Earnings from work which their doctor has advised will be beneficial and would help recovery (known as therapeutic work). 894W
Benefit Disregard (£) Weekly hours at £3.60 Weekly hours at £3.20 Weekly hours at £3.00 Adult dependency increases affected by partner's earnings Short-term incapacity benefit where claimant is: (a) under pension age 31.15 8.65 9.73 10.38 (b) over pension age 38.40 10.67 12.00 12.80 Maternity Allowance 31.15 8.65 9.73 12.80 Retirement pension, long-term incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance, Unemployability supplement where dependent: (a) is living with claimant 51.40 14.28 16.06 17.13 (b) still qualifies for the tapered earnings rule 45.09 12.53 14.09 15.00 Retirement pension, long-term incapacity benefit and Unemployability supplement where dependent is not living with claimant 39.95 11.10 12.48 13.32 Severe disablement allowance where dependent is not living with claimant 23.95 6.65 7.48 7.97 Invalid care allowance 23.90 6.64 7.47 7.97 Child dependency increases Level at which increase is affected by earnings of claimant's spouse or partner: For the first child 145.00 40.28 45.31 48.33 For each subsequent child 19.00 5.28 5.94 6.33 The cost of paying the 1990–2000 uprating of the State Retirement Pension to pensioners in frozen rate countries is estimated to be £25 million.
The cost of increasing all of these pensions to the rate paid to pensioners resident in the UK is currently estimated to be £300 million.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many pensioners living in the UK have state pensions from countries without reciprocal pension uprating agreements with the UK; and how many of them are claiming income support. [111107]
§ Mr. RookerThe information is not available.