The Social Fund–Transitional Measures and Possible Alternatives

Abstract

The law relating to supplementary benefit is due to undergo a revolutionary change in April 1988 as a result of the Government's review of the social security system generally.' Perhaps the most fundamental of the proposed changes in the replacement of supplementary benefit by Income Support is the abolition of the system of single payments for exceptional needs and the introduction of the Social Fund. As an interim measure, however, new and much more restrictive rules than those in force previously were introduced on August 11, 1986.