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Mr. Ralph Howell
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the present statutory ceiling for unemployment benefit, including earnings related benefit, as a percentage of reference earnings.
Mr. O'Malley
The statutory ceiling precludes the earnings-related supplement to unemployment benefit from bringing the claimant's benefit to more than 85 per cent. of his reckonable earnings.