Supplementary welfare during benefit delays
Keating asked whether people awaiting delayed benefits could receive supplementary welfare and at what rate. Woods said eligibility and rates vary by circumstances and confirmed that additional people were receiving allowances.
In this case and similar cases in relation to the comment made by the Minister that he was endeavouring to assist in the transition period by extending the eligibility for supplementary welfare allowances, could the Minister make it clear whether he was talking about people already being paid supplementary welfare allowances, or whether he was saying people awaiting payment of these benefits in these extraordinary circumstances could now take up supplementary welfare allowances, and if it is the latter, could he say at what rate? Would the rate be similar?
Comment on this
The rates vary in every case according to the number in the family, the rate at which a person is working, and so on.
Comment on this
Can I confirm that extra people are now being paid supplementary welfare allowances?
