APPENDIX I
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY—SPRING
SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE
Part 1
|
| RfR1: Administration costs | £78,450,000
|
| RfR3: Non Contributory Benefits
| £8,471,000 |
| Total Additional Net Resource Requirement
| £86,921,000 |
| Additional Net Cash Required
| £71,695,000 |
|
SUPPLEMENTARY amounts required in the year ending 31 March
1999 for expenditure by the Department of Social Security on:
RfRI: Administration costs: The administrative costs of the
DSS, made up of the Core Department, Executive Agencies and Independent
Statutory Bodies; grants to Motability towards their administrative
costs; subsidies to housing, billing, levying and local authorities
and New Town local authorities towards the costs incurred in administering
the housing benefit and/or council tax benefit schemes; payments
in respect of anti-fraud and similar administrative measures;
the payment of resettlement grants; payments made to the Occupational
Pensions Regulatory Authority; and associated non-cash costs.
RfR2: Welfare to Work: Welfare to Work measures, and the
administrative and additional programme costs arising from these
measures; including associated non-cash costs.
RfR3: Non Contributory Benefits: Non-Contributory retirement
pensions, Christmas bonus payments to pensioners; pensions and
other payments/allowances for disablement or death arising out
of war, or service in the armed forces after 2 September 1939;
attendance allowances; invalid care allowance; severe disablement
allowance; disability living allowance; disability working allowance;
pensions, gratuitities and sundry allowances for disablement and
specified deaths arising from industrial causes; income support;
payments of spousal and child maintenance; child benefit; one
parent benefit; family credit; vaccine damage payment scheme;
earnings top up pilot; jobseekers allowance (contribution based);
jobseekers allowance (income based); back to work bonus; compensation
payments to the National Insurance Fund in respect of statutory
sick pay and statutory maternity pay, regulated payments made
from the Social Fund; and associated non cash costs.
RfR4: Grants and Other Expenditure: Rent rebate, rent allowance,
council tax benefit, community charge benefit, community charge
rebate and rent rebate subsidies to local authorities; payments
to providers and private sector landlords of existing supported
accommodation, grants to Independent Living; Motability; and the
British Limbless ex-Servicemen's Association; and associated non-cash
costs.
Part II: Changes Proposed
|
| Resources | | Present
Net
Provision
£000
| Change in
Gross
Provision
£000
| Change in
AinA
£000
| Change in
Net
Provision
£000
| New net
Provision
£000
|
|
| RFR1 A: | Administration |
134,811 | 575
| 16,580 | 17,155
| 118,806 |
| RFR1 B: | Information Technology Services Agency-P&SP
| -4,542 | 6,025
| 0 | 6,025
| 1,483 |
| RFR1 D: | Benefits Agency |
1,806,870 | 240,847
| 152,417 | 88,430
| 1,895,300 |
| Total RfR1: |
| 247,447 | 168,997
| 78,450 | |
| RFR3 B: | War Pensions | 1,398,390
| 500 | 0
| 500 | 1,398,890
|
| RFR3 C: | Disability Benefits
| 10,677,751 | -1,523
| -1,523 | -3,046
| 10,677,751 |
| RFR3 D: | Industrial Injury Benefits
| 792,663 | -967
| -967 | -1,934
| 792,663 |
| RFR3 E: | Income Support for the Elderly
| 3,798,423 | -9,120
| -1,120 | -8,000
| 3,790,423 |
| RFR3 I: | Income Support (under 60 years of age)
| 9,160,516 | -57,529
| -65,530 | -123,059
| 9,168,517 |
| RFR3 J: | Jobseeker's Allowance (income based)
| 3,148,258 | 8,169
| 199 | 8,368
| 3,156,228 |
| Total RfR3: |
| -60,470 | -68,941
| 8,471 | |
| Total Changes to RFRs
| | 186,977 |
100,056 | 86,921
| |
|
| Capital and Cash | Present
Provision
| Change in
Provision
| New
Provision |
| |
|
| Total Capital expenditure | 52,909
| -6,756 | 46,153
| | |
| Non-Operating AinA | 252,461
| 0 | 252,461
| | |
| Net cash required | 50,479,528
| 71,695 | 50,551,223
| | |
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