PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Services: Income Support (15 October 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of uprating the minimum income guarantee in line with inflation each year.
Asked by:
Ben Coleman (Labour)
Asked by:
Ben Coleman (Labour)
Answer
The social care allowance rates, which include the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG), are reviewed each year. The MIG rates were uprated in line with inflation for the previous three financial years, and the rates for the 2025/26 financial year will be published in early 2025.
Answered by:
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
22 October 2024
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