Submitted by: Disablement Income Group

The National Council of Women of Great Britain in Conference assembled, urges Her Majesty’s Government to modify the earnings rule whereby, if the wife of a disabled man, trying to help the family out of the poverty attendance on long-term sickness or disability earns more than £2 16s.0d a week, her husband’s sickness or disablement benefit is reduced by £2 16s.0d.