MEANS-TESTED BENEFITS (Hansard, 20 December 1976)

§ Lord WELLS-PESTELL

The national means-tested benefits are listed below. (Some of these benefits are administered through local authorities.)

Supplementary Benefit
Family Income Supplement Free milk and vitamins
Help with National Health Service charges for:
- Dental treatment, dentures and glasses
- Prescriptions
- Wigs and fabric supports
Patients' hospital travelling expenses
Legal aid (civil)
Legal advice and assistance

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Legal aid (criminal)
Grants to severely disabled people—to assist with excessive cost of fares to work or to set up in business on own account when this appears to provide the only satisfactory means of re-settlement
Professional Training Scheme for Disabled people
Awards for students taking certain post-graduate courses
Rent rebates and allowances
Rate rebates
Free school meals
Awards for students on first degree or comparable courses, on teacher training courses and courses leading to the Diploma of Higher Education or Higher National Diploma
Awards for students at long term residential adult colleges
Remission of direct grant school tuition fees
Accommodation under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948.

I regret that information about take up of benefits from the 1975 Family Expenditure Survey is not yet available. I hope to have some information shortly and I will then write to the noble Lord.

House adjourned at twenty-seven minutes before eight o'clock.