asked the Minister for Social Welfare the amount estimated to have been saved in 1987 as a result of the reduction in the rate of pay-related benefit from April 1987.
Written Answers. - Pay-Related Benefit.
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Pay-related benefit is payable with disability benefit, unemployment benefit, maternity benefit and injury benefit. It is paid for up to 62½ weeks after the first three weeks of a claim.
From last April pay-related benefit for new claimants was made at a standard rate of 12 per cent. The savings from this measure which was also included in the previous Government's proposed budget, have been estimated at £13 million in 1987.