Deputy Geoff Southern asked Social Security Minister Susie Pinel how successful she had been in achieving the aim of reducing poverty in the Island.
A report last year said there had been considerable progress made in the battle to get Islanders off benefits.
The report said: “The previous five years have seen a significant decrease in the percentage of income support households that are wholly reliant on the weekly benefit as their source of income.”
In 2011, 18% of all households were on income support and although that figure rose to 19% the following year, since then it has continued to fall and it stood at 13% in 2015.
The biggest percentage fall in income support groups was amongst adults with children, which has declined from 6% in 2011 to just 2% last year.
Adults without children on benefits has gone down from 34% in 2011 to 25% in 2015, while single adults with children has dropped form 20% in 2011 to 14% last year.
Figures also show that the percentage of working age households with no adults in employment has decreased from 60% in 2011 to 49% in 2015.
The percentage of children in working age households with no earned income has also fallen sharply, from 39% in 2011 to 28% last year.