(1) If you are claiming supplementary benefit, you automatically qualify.

(2) In 1988 heating additions were withdrawn from supplementary benefit.

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

(4) Under the supplementary benefit system, single parents could earn additional income and only part of this was offset against their benefit.

(5) The Public Records Office currently retains some supplementary benefit records but there is no systematic sampling system.

(6) This contradicts the spirit of the supplementary benefit regulations and suggests that the means test is being enforced with new vigour.

(7) With the replacement of national assistance by supplementary benefit in 1966, a major change took place in relation to the means-tested benefits.

(8) Third, since supplementary benefit can be paid indefinitely, long strikes are prolonged into longer strikes.

(9) Strikes that are more likely to attract supplementary benefit are those involving large numbers, which last long and which are official.

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

(11) With mass unemployment, means-tested supplementary benefit is the new mass benefit for the unemployed.

(12) Families on supplementary benefit, now income support, are likely to borrow to buy items of clothing or durable household goods.

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

(14) The client eventually recovered ￡1,000 in supplementary benefit additional requirements, backdated to 1976.

(15) Single strikers receive supplementary benefit at the discretion of the supplementary benefit officer only in very exceptional circumstances.

(16) The Government first attempted to exclude altogether supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of regulation 72.

(17) Some items of expenditure like supplementary benefit or sickness benefit are demand-led commitments.

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

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

(20) On 25 February, the special Cabinet committee turned its attention to the reform of supplementary benefit but the meeting was inconclusive.

(21) Scant weight is given to indices of economic deprivation, such as unemployment levels and proportions of children or families in receipt of Supplementary Benefit.

(22) Up to April 1988 this was known as supplementary pension and was the arm of the supplementary benefit system catering for older people.

(23) As a first step pensions and child benefit were to be raised and long-term supplementary benefit extended to the long-term unemployed.

(24) Between 1979 and 1987 the proportion of unemployed men who received supplementary benefit alone increased from 43 percent to 61.4 percent.

(25) You can qualify for housing benefit on a higher income than for supplementary benefit.

(26) Now she's unemployed and her husband has tuberculosis and they live on supplementary benefit with their two children.

(27) Only 18 to 25 percent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit.

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

(29) The result is that a large proportion of the elderly are solely dependent on the basic state pension, with supplementary benefit.

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

(31) At the same time the old supplementary benefit and heating allowances were abolished and a new system of income support was introduced.

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

(33) By the end of the decade, unclaimed supplementary benefit reached ￡410 million.

(34) Two smoothed versions of the numbers of unemployed supplementary benefit claimants are displayed in figure 9.3 and figure 9.4.

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

(36) Hence, it's natural for me to go head over heels for Yaoyi - the cute rocking chair that is bundled with a supplementary benefit.

(37) Many of the rules surrounding the payment of unemployment or supplementary benefit are for this purpose.