supplementary benefit
social assistance
national assistance

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

Whatever the reasons, constantly growing numbers of lone parents live on supplementary benefit.

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

This seems to be the case in figure 9.1, for example, at the point where national assistance changes over to supplementary benefit.

These supplementary benefits will cost an estimated $5.2 billion.

They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street, trying to get my house together.

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

A supplementary benefit for widows with children was introduced (1945).

These conditions of participation are impossible for anyone living on supplementary benefit.

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