HC Deb 20 October 1975 vol 898 cc38-9W
Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the present statutory ceiling for unemployment benefit, including earnings related benefit, as a percentage of reference earnings.

Mr. O'Malley

The statutory ceiling precludes the earnings-related supplement to unemployment benefit from bringing the claimant's benefit to more than 85 per cent. of his reckonable earnings.