§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services why supplementary benefit order books still contain instructions to the claimant to inform the supplementary benefit office when their earnings exceed £2 in any week when the disregard was raised to £4 in November 1975 and, for one-parent families, to £6 from this November.
§ Mr. DeakinsWhen the supplementary benefit earnings disregard for single parent families was increased on 15th November it was decided, in the interest of economy, to use up existing stocks of order books but to include in them a note explaining the increase. All books issued to single parents have been amended to ask claimants to report earnings over £6 a week.