Question follow-through · 9391
Social Services: Income Support
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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
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.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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22 Oct 2024
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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