I thank the Minister and shall be satisfied with that for the moment.
The Minister went on to say that there would be no topping up, as ESA is an integrated benefit, but that there would be enhanced disability benefit, if I understood him correctly. I am grateful, too, for that. Is the income support element to lose the disability premium of income support? That worries certain of my correspondents. I am glad to hear that at least some of the passported benefits will be continued—for example, housing benefit, council tax benefit, prescription charges, and presumably eye and teeth tests and those sorts of things. I also noted that the disability premium was to continue.
On the linking rules, I did not quite—
Welfare Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Skelmersdale
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 20 February 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
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