HC Deb 03 February 1981 vol 998 c82W
20. Mr. Allan Roberts

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, assuming maximum claiming of all means-tested benefits, by how much a family with two children would benefit by an increase in the gross pay of the wage-earner in the family from £55 to £75 per week.

Mrs. Chalker

This would depend on the assumptions made about the family and their circumstances. On the basis of the assumptions made for a two child family in the tax benefit model tables, the immediate increase in net weekly spending power would be £7.40. This takes account of the fact that, once family income supplement had been awarded, it would continue unchanged for 12 months regardless of a pay increase or other changes.