Skip to main content

Earnings-Related Benefits

Volume 28: debated on Monday 26 July 1982

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what savings will have accrued by the end of the fiscal year 1982–83 as a result of the abolition of earnings-related benefits.

Taking account of an offsetting cost on supplementary benefit, it is estimated that the savings from the change in the entitlement formula for earnings-related supplement in January 1981 and its abolition in January 1982 were:

£ million
1980–812
1981–8280
1982–83270