Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Pensions and National Insurance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 June 1964.
| — | October, 1951 | Increase in real value comparing present rate with 1951 rate | |||||||||||
| Present rates of benefit | Rate payable | Equivalent at May, 1964 prices* | Amount (at current prices) | Per cent. | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Unemployed or sick person— | |||||||||||||
| Single man or woman | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 73 |
| Married couple | 5 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 73 |
| Married couple with three children† | 8 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 71 |
| Widow, no children | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 73 |
| Widow, three children† | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 8 | 119 |
| Retirement pensioner— | |||||||||||||
| Single person | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 0‡ | 2 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 50 |
| Married couple | 5 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0‡ | 3 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 46 |
| Industrial disablement pensioner with pension at 100 per cent. rate (or persons with injury benefit) | 5 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 71 |
| * On the basis of the Retail Prices Index. | |||||||||||||
| †Including family allowances under Family Allowances Act 1945. | |||||||||||||
| ‡The higher of the two rates of retirement pension in payment from the autumn of 1951. | |||||||||||||
