ounts payable
weekly rate is £10.75 (£6.55 for a married woman). These amounts include the 25p age addition referred to on page 27.
Further information: Leaflet NI184.
Pensions for women who are or were married
to men aged 65 or over on 5 July 1948
A pension payable to women who are or were married to men born before 6 July 1883. A woman may qualify even if, after her husband died or the marriage was dissolved or annulled, she remarried when over 60.
The conditions
Age and residence conditions have to be satisfied according to the woman's status at the time of claim. She should not be receiving a national insurance pension at a rate higher than £10-50 (widow, excluding any increase for a child, or a divorced woman) or £6.30 (married woman).
How to claim
Leaflet NI177A which includes a claim form, is available from local social security offices.
Further information: Leaflet NI177A.
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School children
Educational maintenance allowances
Local education authorities can give grants to parents to help them maintain children over school leaving age who wish to stay on at school. Application should be made to the Education Office or an Education Welfare Officer.
School dinners
Local education authorities have a statutory duty to provide school dinners for day pupils in attendance at schools maintained by them. Dinners are available free of charge for school children in families with incomes below certain levels (see table) or in families receiving supplementary benefit or family income supplement. Applications should be made in all cases to the Education Office or Education Welfare Officer.
Families getting supplementary benefit or family income supplement may be asked to show their order book at the Education Office. Free school meals will be granted for the period of entitlement to supplementary benefit or family income supplement.
Other families (those not in receipt of supplementary benefit or family income supplement) should ask for an application form. To qualify the family net income after deduction of rent and other expenses must be below the level shown in the table.
Net weekly income is the family's gross income (including child benefit) less expenses (such as rent, rates, mortgage repayments, income tax, national insurance contributions, trade union subscriptions, superannuation pay- ments and fares to work). In a two-parent family if the mother is working the first £4 of her earnings are disregarded. In a single-parent family the first £6 of the mother's or father's earnings are disregarded. The levels of
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