§ 92. Mr. Roebuckasked the Minister of Social Security how much an unemployed man aged 40 years of age, with a wife and two children and who had been previously earning £20 a week, will receive in unemployment benefit and supplementary benefits and redundancy payments, assuming he had been employed at the same wages for 10 years; and what benefits would have been payable in November 1964.
§ Mrs. HartSubject to the usual conditions he would receive unemployment benefit of £13 7s. a week for the first 6 months. Earnings-related supplement would then cease but flat-rate unemployment benefit of £9 8s. a week would continue for a further 6 months. At November, 1964, the same man would have received unemployment benefit of £7 1 s. a week. Entitlement to supplementary benefits depends on the level of individual requirements and resources.
The question of redundancy payments is a matter for my right hon. Friend, the Minister of Labour.