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Mr. Lewis
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what the estimated current cash value would be of the earnings-related supplement awarded to unemployed people at the time of its abolition in 1981, using the growth in earnings since 1981 as the uprating factor.
Mr. Jack
Using the latest average weekly rate of earnings-related supplement—November 1980—and uprating by the growth in earnings between April 1981 and April 1991, the value would be £9.80 a week.
Source:
The earnings index used is the New Series Index (Whole Economy) Seasonally Adjusted.