§ Ms. LynneTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make it his policy to disregard all income from compensation payments paid to people who had been held in Nazi concentration camps in calculations for community charge benefit and council tax benefit.
§ Mr. BurtPeople who have suffered from National Socialist persecution already receive special recognition in all of the income-related benefit schemes, including community charge benefit and, from April 1993, council tax benefit. The first £10 a week of the pension they receive as a consequence of their persecution is completely ignored. We have no plans to change these rules.