§ Mr. Brothertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he is 681W taking to prevent the practice of students claiming supplementary benefits in the interval between the opening registration day and the special late registration day of their college.
§ Mr. OrmeAny claim for supplementary benefit made in this period would fail unless the student could show that his term-time grant income left him below his supplementary benefit level and—except where he was severely handicapped or was a single parent—that he remained, after the normal first day of the college term, able and willing to do any suitable work. It is only rarely that a student would be able to satisfy both these conditions.