supplementary benefit

They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street, trying to get my house together.

Supplementary benefit was run by this Government and their predecessor.

This seems to be the case in figure 9.1, for example, at the point where national assistance changes over to supplementary benefit.

These conditions of participation are impossible for anyone living on supplementary benefit.

I had to pay out of my supplementary benefit, £7 an hour, just once a week.

A supplementary benefit for widows with children was introduced (1945).

They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit.

Whatever the reasons, constantly growing numbers of lone parents live on supplementary benefit.

It replaces the system of grants to people who were getting supplementary benefit before April 1988.

Those whose husbands are earning will not even qualify for supplementary benefit.

Supplementary Benefit was replaced by income support in 1988.

In April 1988 supplementary benefit was replaced by income support and social fund payments.

He went on to enunciate the principles for review of the supplementary benefits system.

One of the Government's aims in moving from supplementary benefit to income support was to simplify the system.

That the child's family is on supplementary benefit.

This is not the case for persons in receipt of Supplementary Benefit.

Tax credits would not be paid to women receiving Supplementary Benefit.

Calculations have shown that a two child family receiving supplementary benefit could buy a woman's coat only once every 15 years.

However, this conclusion was based solely on a comparison of income support levels with supplementary benefit rates.

These supplementary benefits will cost an estimated $5.2 billion.

These two new schemes operate with much simpler rule structures than had supplementary benefit.

Under this rule, young, single, unskilled men who lived in areas of low unemployment would have their supplementary benefits stopped after four weeks.

They are also denied the statutory right to bring their dependants or claim supplementary benefits.

The unit could take some credit then for the change in the supplementary benefit adjudication regulations that followed as a result.

Under the old system, a person was eligible for supplementary benefit if their resources were below their requirements.