HC Deb 27 November 1980 vol 994 c158W
Mr. Rooker

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list all the social security benefits where the cash increase in November 1980 is less than in November 1979.

Mrs. Chalker

The information requested is as follows:

  • Unemployment benefit
  • Sickness benefit
  • Maternity allowance
  • Child's special allowance
  • Invalidity pension
  • Invalidity allowance (and equivalent payable with unemployability supplements)
  • Unemployability supplements to war pensions and industrial injuries benefits
  • Adult dependency increases with short-term benefits and invalidity benefit
  • * Increases for dependent children
  • Guardian's allowance
  • War pensions for motherless or fatherless children
  • War pensions comforts allowance
  • * The rates of these increases take account of the increase in child benefit.

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