Department of Health and Social Security and successors: Records of the Supplementary...

Thi series contains records of the Supplementary Benefits and Family Support Group. The file series covers the review (and the resulting legislative changes) into supplementary benefits schemes in Great Britain.

This series is arranged in file reference order.

in 2012 Department for Work and Pensions

Topics

Welfare

A Review of Supplementary Benefits was established in 1976. The review report, 'Social Assistance, A Review of the Supplementary Benefits Scheme in Great Britain', was published in July 1978. The implementation of the review was undertaken with the change of government in 1979, under the Secretary of State Sir Patrick Jenkin. (This review was prior to the later reform undertaken by Sir Norman Fowler). The work was undertaken by Supplementary Benefits and Family Support Group; Division SBI.

The review changed two areas within the administration of supplementary benefits; A. Legal and administrative changes; clear entitlement and published rules and the subsequent abolish of the Supplementary Benefit Commission.B. Changes in benefit; deferring school leavers' entitlement, aligning of supplementary benefit and national insurance rates, reduction in the qualifying period for the long-term rates, fewer children's rates, standard rent shares from non-dependent members of a claimant's household, treatment of resources, equal treatment of resources.