To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish figures detailing the disposable incomes of (a) single-earner married couples with two children aged under 11 years, and (b) lone mothers with two children aged under 11 years, assuming rent of £21·80 and rates of £9·00 in each case (i) when not in paid work and receiving income support, and (ii) when in full-time paid work earning (1) £80, (2) £100, (3) £120, (4) £140 and (5) £160 per week.
The information requested is set out in the table. The position of lone parents on housing benefit and community charge benefit will improve from October 1990 with a change in the earnings disregard from £15 to £25.
| Disposable incomes (net income alter housing costs) for family types at various earnings levels and on income support as at October 1989 Family type: | |
| Single earner married couples with two children under 11 years | |
| Net earnings | Disposable incomes |
| (£ per week) | (£ per week) |
| On income support | 87·56 |
| 80 | 97·35 |
| 100 | 97·82 |
| 120 | 101·23 |
| 140 | 105·19 |
| 160 | 110·33 |
Family type:
| |
Lone mothers with two children under 11 years
| |
Net earnings
| Disposable incomes
|
(£ per week)
| (£ per week)
|
| On income support | 71·56 |
| 80 | 98·20 |
| 100 | 102·47 |
| 120 | 106·43 |
| 140 | 110·39 |
| 160 | 115·53 |
Notes:
1. The assumptions (including average rent and rates) and methods are those used in the Tax Benefit Model Tables, copies of which are available in the Library.
2. For earnings level £160 separate calculations have been done, but using the same assumptions and methods as in the Tax Benefit Model Tables.