Social Security Statistics (Hansard, 19 November 1984)

§ Mr. Newton

[pursuant to his reply, 16 November 1984, c. 386]: The table is based on provisional estimates of the number of recipients of regular weekly payments of 73W supplementary benefit at December 1983 who had additions to their benefit for special needs (additional requirements).

									Unemployed
	All Supplementary Benefits	All Supplementary Pension	All Retirement Pension Cases and Widows aged 60 or over	Over Pension Age without NI Benefit	All Allowances	Sick and Disabled with and without NI Benefit	One Parent Families (not included in other groups)	Men aged 60–64	With Unemployment Benefit	Without Unemployment Benefit	Others (including widows under 60)
Total number of items of special expense	3,646	2,279	2,194	86	1,367	201	329	88	143	555	51
Number of cases with additional requirement added in assessment	2,694	1,496	1,438	59	1,198	146	303	74	134	501	40
1. Heating Addition (£2.05)	567	438	421	18	128	28	22	15	7	48	9
2. Heating Addition (£5.05)	379	336	322	14	43	21	5	5	1	8	4
3. Central Heating Addition (£2.05)	454	204	198	7	249	19	56	20	30	118	7
4. Central Heating Addition (£4.10)	565	134	131	3	431	23	121	25	64	187	12
5. Age related Heating Additions (£2.05)	480	268	260	8	213	3	86	1	24	97	1
6. Disabled Person's Heating Addition (£5.05)	116	53	49	4	63	41	4	3	2	9	6
7. Estate Rate Heating Addition (£4.10)	15	7	7	—	8	1	2	1	1	4	^*
8. Estate Rate Heating Addition (£8.20)	4	^*	^*	—	4	^*	2	^*	^*	2	^*
9. Specified Heating Addition	2	1	1	^*	1	^*	^*	—	—	^*	—
10. Other Heating Addition	3	2	1	^*	1	—	^*	^*	^*	1	—
Special diet:—
11. (£1.45)	224	166	160	6	58	19	8	6	3	17	5
12. (£3.35)	217	140	133	7	77	20	6	9	6	31	5
13. (£9.60)	2	1	1	—	1	1	—	^*	—	^*	—
14. Others	1	^*	^*	—	^*	—	^*	^*	—	^*	—
Aged addition:—
15. (25p)	397	397	384	12	1	^*	—	^*	—	^*	^*
16.(50p)	16	16	16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Blind addition:—
17. Claimant or Spouse (£1.25)	35	29	27	1	7	3	^*	1	^*	2	1
18. Both Blind (£2.50)	^*	^*	^*	—	^*	—	—	—	—	^*	—
19. Dependant Blind (£1.25)	^*	—	—	—	^*	—	^*	—	—	—	—
20. Laundry	119	72	69	3	47	10	10	2	3	21	1
21. Domestic Help (Private)	2	2	2	—	^*	^*	^*	—	—	—	—
22. Hot Water for Extra Bath	13	2	2	^*	10	3	3	^*	^*	4	^*
23. Attendance Expenses	^*	—	—	—	^*	^*	—	—	—	—	—
24. Clothing and Footwear	22	6	5	1	16	8	2	^*	1	5	1
25. Furniture and Storage Charges	1	^*	^*	—	^*	—	^*	—	—	^*	—
26. Hire Purchase	2	—	—	—	2	^*	^*	^*	^*	1	^*
27. Fares to visit Patients	^*	^*	^*	—	2	^*	^*	^*	—	1	—
28. Child Fostered	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
29. Addition given at 1982—Uprating to maintain earlier Assessment	^*	^*	^*	—	^*	^*	—	^*	—	^*	—
31. Others	1	3	3	^*	5	1	1	^*	1	2	^*
^* Less than 500.

Note: (a) Special expenses other than heating additions, age additions and blindness additions and those given to maintain an earlier assessment may have been met in part or in full by the available scale margin for certain special expenses included in the long term scale rate (50p).

Source: Annual Statistical Enquiries 1983 (provisional estimates).