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Income Support

Volume 174: debated on Tuesday 12 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security for how many weeks a person who claims income support on becoming unemployed after a trial period of employment, and whose income support entitlement before that period included 100 per cent. of his or her mortgage interest, has to wait before again having the mortgage interest met in full.

A person who claims income support on becoming unemployed after a period of employment which satisfies the conditions for employment on trial for unemployment benefit purposes, and whose income support before that period included 100 per cent. of mortgage interest, will have mortgage interest met in full from the outset of the claim.