Supplementary Benefits (Claimants)

Mr. Richard Wainwright
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report the total number of supplementary benefit claimants for 1974; and if she will break down this information in a similar way to the information on supplementary benefit recipients presented in table 50 of "Social Trends No. 4".

Mr. Alec Jones
Provisional information relating to November 1974 is as follows: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Retirement pensioners and national insurance widows aged 60 years and over|
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|Others over pension age                                                   |
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|Unemployed with national insurance benefit                                |
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|Unemployed without national insurance benefit                             |
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|Sick and disabled with national insurance benefit                         |
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|Sick and disabled without national insurance benefit                      |
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|Women under 60 with dependent children                                    |
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|National insurance widows under 60                                        |
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|Others                                                                    |
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|Total persons receiving supplementary benefit                             |
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|—of whom wage-stopped (unemployed)                                        |
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