HC Deb 17 May 1990 vol 172 cc522-3W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether he will amend the poll tax benefit regulations so that the capital element of an annuity received by an elderly person under a home income plan is not treated as income and therefore does not affect benefit entitlement.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

We have no such plans.

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