Ms Louise Bayliss:

There are a couple of things. One of the major things would be for jobseeker's transition to be extended to when a child leaves second level education, because we see a big drop in income for parents when their children turn 14 years of age and they lose access to jobseeker's transition. We feel there is no need for that if they are already in work or training, so we assume they could keep that.

Another major thing we have asked for for a long time, and which I highlighted earlier, has to do with how lone parents are the only group that have a long-term payment but do not get the living alone allowance. We have already talked about how their income is supplementing deficits in their child rate and how, on top of that, they do not get the living alone allowance. That is causing a massive strain on parents. If someone has a disability or is a pensioner, it is recognised that he or she cannot run a household on one social welfare payment, but lone parents are expected to do that, so that would be a massive change.

One of the things we see so often is that so many lone parents do not get maintenance or they have court-ordered maintenance. They are going into court looking for the child maintenance and not being supported with that. At the same time, they are being brought to court because they have not paid a TV licence. We see all the time that women are going to court because of TV licences. It is because they cannot afford it. They do not get the household benefits package that would provide the TV licence. These simple measures, including the living alone allowance so that they would not be supplementing deficits elsewhere, would be the two things off the top of my head. Ms Kiernan may have something.