Widowed Mother's Allowance

HC Deb 21 June 1990 vol 174 c707W

Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many women who receive widowed mother's allowance also receive income support.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

The latest available figures show that at May 1988¹ some 6,000 women getting widowed mother's allowance—approximately 8 per cent of the total —were in receipt of income support.

Source: annual statistical inquiry, May 1988