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What National Insurance contribution conditions carers have to meet in order to qualify for contribution based jobseeker's allowance.

Asked by

Terry Rooney (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

27 February 1997

Answered on

27 February 1997

Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what national insurance contribution conditions carers have to meet in order to qualify for contribution-based jobseeker's allowance. [17942] Mr. Evans: Under jobseeker's allowance, the national insurance contribution conditions for carers are the same as for other jobseekers. As with the previous unemployment benefit scheme, entitlement to the contribution-based element of jobseeker's allowance is based on the individual's national insurance contributions in the last two full tax years before the year of the claim to jobseeker's allowance. There are two contribution conditions. The first condition which a person must satisfy is to have paid class 1 contributions of 25 times the lower earnings limit (currently £61) in one of the two relevant tax years. The second condition is that class 1 contributions must have been paid or credited of at least 50 times the lower earnings limit (currently 61) in both of the two relevant tax years on which the claim is based. The relevant tax years are the last two complete tax years before the benefit year (starting in January) in which the claim is made. However, the linking provisions have been amended under jobseeker's allowance to provide extra help for carers. For the first time, periods in receipt of invalid care allowance are included in the jobseeker's allowance linking provisions. This ensures that a person's benefit position at the end of a period of invalid care allowance will be the same as when it started. Therefore, if a person's contribution record immediately prior to a period in receipt of invalid care allowance is sufficient to qualify the individual for contribution-based jobseeker's allowance, that record will apply to any claim for jobseeker's allowance which is made when invalid care allowance ceases.

Date

27 February 1997

Reference

17942; 291 c313W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

How many (a) men and (b) women currently receive the carer premium with (i) income support, (ii) housing benefit and (iii) council tax benefit. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Lord Howarth of Newport (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

24 February 1997

Answered on

24 February 1997

Mr. Alan Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many (a) men and (b) women currently receive the carer premium with (i) income support, (ii) housing benefit and (iii) council tax benefit. [15798] Mr. Roger Evans: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is set out in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Benefit Male recipients Female recipients Total recipients Income support{1} 92,000 68,000 159,000 Housing benefit{2} -- -- 87,000 Council tax benefit{2} -- -- 116,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Figures as at February 1996. 2. Figures as at May 1995. 3. All numbers have been rounded to the nearest thousand, and totals may not sum. 4. It is not possible to identify the sex of those people whose housing benefit and council tax benefit assessments include the carer premium. 5. The figures given for income support represent the sex of the claimant who is a member of a benefit unit for which there is entitlement to the carer premium. The benefit unit may be a single person or a couple, and the claimant may or may not be the carer. 6. People in receipt of housing benefit whose assessment includes a carer premium, can also be in receipt of council tax benefit. There is therefore some overlap in the figures for these benefits. Sources: {1} The income support figures are from the May 1995 and February 1996 "Quarterly Statistical Enquiry". {2} The latest housing benefit and council tax benefit figures are from the May 1995 housing benefit management information system annual 1 per cent. enquiry.

Date

24 February 1997

Reference

15798; 291 c86W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

How many applications have been made for extended payments of housing benefit and council tax benefit; and how many of these have been successful in each standard region broken down to show (a) the numbers of registered unemployed, (b) those in receipt of a training allowance, (c) lone parents, (d)...

Asked by

Terry Rooney (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 1997

Reference

15104; 290 c77W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

What estimate he has made of the number of carers who are no longer entitled to sign on as unemployed as a result of the introduction of Jobseeker's Allowance and are also unable to obtain national insurance credits due to the cared for person not being in receipt of disability...

Asked by

Brian Wilson (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 January 1997

Reference

8896; 288 c385-6W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

To what extent the support given by carers will be counted as a service for which national earnings could be calculated under the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1996 (S.I.1996, No. 2745).

Asked by

John Denham (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 November 1996

Reference

5092; 285 c687W;285 c689W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

How many applications have been made for extended payment of housing benefit and council tax benefit and how many have been successful by standard region and Great Britain as a whole and by (a) gender and (b) ethnicity, specifying the numbers who were (i) registered unemployed, (ii) recipients of a...

Asked by

Terry Rooney (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 November 1996

Reference

4435; 285 c456W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

How many carers lost their right to unemployment benefit following the 1988 legislation on social benefits. - Info not available.

Asked by

Bill O'Brien (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 January 1996

Reference

7994; 269 c174W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

What benefit provision Her Majesty's Government (a) currently makes and (b) intends to make available to disabled applicants for political asylum and those asylum seekers who care for disabled applicants.

Asked by

Lord Alton of Liverpool (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 December 1995

Reference

3672; 268 c95-6W

House

House of Commons

Wednesday adjournment debate on disability living allowance

Wednesday adjournment debate on disability living allowance.

Lead member

Eric Clarke

Answering member

Roger Evans

Department

Department of Social Security

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

5 July 1995

Reference

263 c347-54

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

If the new contribution linking arrangements for jobseeker's allowance will take account of the period when a carer is unable to claim invalid care allowance because the disabled person is still within the six or three month waiting period for attendance allowance and disability living allowance; what will be the...

Asked by

Lord Bradley (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 March 1995

Reference

256 c457W;256 c456W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

What are the reasons underlying the policy whereby a disabled person can not claim the severe disability premium if the carer is receiving invalid care allowance.

Asked by

Jim Cunningham (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

31 October 1994

Reference

248 c907W;248 c909W

House

House of Commons

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