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Family Credit

Volume 201: debated on Monday 16 December 1991

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18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the highest level of net earnings that a married man with two children can have and still qualify for family credit.

In the case of the family type my hon. Friend describes, the answer is £196, but both children would have to be aged 18 and still at school. The figure will be £209 when the benefit rates are increased next April.

19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many single parents are currently in receipt of family credit.

The latest available information is for April 1991, when there were 131,000 lone parent families in receipt of family credit, out of a total caseload at that time of 341,000.

27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many family credit awards have been made since this benefit was first introduced.

Since April 1988, when the scheme started, over 2·4 million awards have been made.