Family Income Supplement

It is a very modest family income supplement for poor families."

A new family credit system was introduced in 1988 to replace the old family income supplement.

- Increases in family income supplements for low-income families.

The school leaving age raised to 16, while a family income supplement was introduced to boost the incomes of low-income earners.

Thus supplementary benefit and family income supplement are more likely to benefit manual than non-manual groups.

That leaves £17 for food and the rest of life topped up by Family Income Supplement.

The former refers to payments such as pensions, supplementary benefit, family income supplement, child benefit, and so on.

The only benefit of getting married now is the Family Income Supplement, that's only £7 a week.

When it was introduced in place of the old family income supplement scheme last year, just 38 per cent of those entitled claimed family credit.

If the benefit you get is a 'family benefit' for example Children's Allowance or Family Income Supplement, don't enter it on your claim form.

The Social Security Act 1986 provided for Family Income Supplement to be replaced with Family Credit, a similar scheme.

Bob Cratchit, now married with three children, is on such low pay that every so often he considers applying for family income supplement to help out his hard-pressed family.

The rules relating to means-tested benefits for housing benefit, family credit (family income supplement) and income support (supplementary benefit) were redesigned and simplified.

This legislation modified SERPS (in the way outlined above), replaced supplementary benefit by 'income support' and family income supplement by 'family credit'.

In the event, the Heath Government introduced a new means-tested benefit, called Family Income Supplement (FIS), which could be claimed by working families on low incomes.

Family Income Supplement, the main source of state financial support for families, did not target any help specifically to childcare costs, and there was no regulation/guidance for the childcare workforce.

In the 1970s the Conservatives floated an alternative approach, a form of negative income tax called 'tax credits', and implemented a means-tested benefit for poor wage-earners, 'family income supplement'.

On the basis of a large response the Bureaux Services Committee decided to substitute Mesher for the 'Yellow Book' which had previously been supplied on supplementary benefit and family income supplement.

Three benefits have been replaced by an entirely new set of conditions and considerations: supplementary benefit has been replaced by income support; family income supplement by family credit; and single payment by the social fund.

Their numbers have decreased since 1980, when responsibility for the provision of school meals was delegated to LEAs, with a legal obligation to provide meals only to children in families receiving Supplementary Benefit or Family Income Supplement.

We have got a well established machinery instituted, we work under that auspices and I believe it is not unreasonable to ask for a substantial wage increase, because after all, a lot of our members depend on family income supplement and rents and rates rebates.

You may not need to pay these fees - for example, if you are on supplementary benefit OR on family income supplement OR receiving advice and assistance from a solicitor under the Legal Advice and Assistance Scheme.

They are supposed to apply to widows' pensions, war pensions, civil service pensions, family income supplement, child benefit - indeed, to every scheme which makes any special provision for widows and other people left on their own, or for people caring for children single-handed.

One was to add a new social fund sequence at the end of the existing structure and to slot housing benefit, income support, supplementary benefit and family credit into the positions of the existing housing benefit, supplementary benefit and family income supplement respectively.

These include: children under 16, students under 19 in full time education, women aged 60 and over, men aged 65 and over, expectant mothers and those who have had a child within the past 12 months, whose on income support or family income supplement, war service pensioners and those suffering from a range of specified complaints.