§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the basic weekly rate of supplementary benefit at the ordinary rate payable to a married man whose wife does not work and who has two children aged 12 and 16 years;
(2) what is the basic weekly rate of long-term supplementary benefit payable to a married man whose wife does not work and who has two children aged 12 and 16 years.
§ Mr. OrmeThe ordinary supplementary benefit scale rates for a claimant with the dependants indicated would be £33.80: to this would be added provisions for rent and from it would be deducted any resources including child benefit. The amount would be £38 if the claimant qualified for the long-term scale rate.
§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what additional supplementary benefits can be claimed by a married man with two children who is receiving invalidity benefit; and how this compares with benefits that can be claimed by a man in identical circumstances who receives supplementary benefit.
§ Mr. OrmeA person receiving invalidity benefit may also be entitled to supplementary benefit. Any recipient of supplementary benefit is automatically entitled to free prescriptions, free milk and vitamins for expectant mothers and children under schoool age, free NHS dental treatment, dentures and glasses, free school meals and payment of hospital fares; and any invalidity pensioners 189W not receiving supplementary benefit but living at a similar level of income would generally be able to obtain these benefits on grounds of low income.