§ 22. Mr. Higginsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services by what authority the Supplementary Benefits Commission treated overpayments made to firemen which they returned to local authorities during the recent industrial action as resources deliberately abandoned, with the result that claims by their families for supplementary benefit were disallowed.
§ Mr. OrmeIf someone deliberately abandons resources in order to get supplementary benefit, the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976, Schedule 1, paragraph 28, enables the Supplementary Benefits Commission to take those resources into account as if he still had them.