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24.
Sir Fergus Montgomery
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the value of the average family credit award expressed as a proportion of gross wages for those who receive family credit.
Mr. Jack
In August 1991, a 5 per cent. sample of family credit recipients showed that the average is 30 per cent. of the gross weekly earnings of the main earner.