What is Supplementary Benefit?
'''Supplementary Benefit''' was part of the [[social security]] system in the United Kingdom. It replaced [[National Assistance]] in 1966. It was [[Means test|means-tested]] and paid to people on low incomes. It stopped and was replaced by [[Income Support]] on 11 April 1988. To get it a person had to show that their savings were less than £6000 and the weekly money they had to live on was less than they needed. It could be paid on top of other benefits, but not to people who were working.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ogus |first1=A |display-authors=etal |title=The Law of Social Security |date=1988 |publisher=Butterworth & Co |location=London |isbn=978-0406633705 |edition=3 }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Social security in the United Kingdom]]