Social Services: Income Support
Commons · Question 9391 · Tabled 15 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Ben Coleman
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.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 22 Oct 2024
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 publi...