§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing the value of earnings disregards relating to recipients of sickness and unemployment benefit, invalidity benefit non-contributory invalidity pension, and supplementary benefit, including single parents in receipt of the latter.
§ Mr. OrmeFollowing is the information:
National insurance benefit Earnings limit (a) Sickness benefit £9.00 a week (a) Invalidity benefit £9.00 a week (a) Non-contributory invalidity pension. £9.00 a week (b) Unemployment benefit £0.75 a day
Supplementary benefit Earnings disregard For claimants required to register for employment. £2.00 a week For the head of a one-parent family. £6.00 a week For any other claimant £4.00 a week (a) These benefits are paid if the claimant is incapable of work, and only work which is undertaken under medical supervision as part of his treatment while he is a patient in or of a hospital, or which he has good cause for doing, is permitted. If his earnings from permitted work are more than £9 a week, the benefit is not payable. (b) Unemployment benefit may be payable to a person who is engaged in part-time employment if—(a) his daily earnings do not exceed 75p; and (b) he is available for full-time work, and his part-time employment would not interfere with his taking up such full-time work; and (c) if his part-time employment is in employed earner's employment, it is not in his usual main occupation.