§ Mrs. Lena Jegerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what amount is payable in children's allowances and family allowances to a widowed mother with three children after 8th October as compared with before that date; and what, therefore, will be the increase in her income compared with that of a similar size family where the husband is alive and in work.
§ Mr. SwinglerThe amount payable in national insurance dependency allowances and family allowances for a widowed mother with three children remained at £6 16s. 6d. a week after 8th October. She therefore received no increase in total income then; the family of a man in work with three children178W received an extra 6s. a week in family allowances, but his tax allowances for 1968/69, unlike those of the widowed mother, will previously have been adjusted to take account of the earlier increase in April so that the family's net gain depends on the amount of other income and may be minimal.