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Needs Allowance

Volume 86: debated on Thursday 14 November 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has any plans to alter the long-term scale needs allowances for supplementary benefit.

The recent Green Paper "Reform of Social Security" proposed a new structure of income support with client group premiums for particular groups of claimants instead of the present system, including the long-term rate.