Question follow-through · 56823
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methods her Department uses to calculate the minimum amount of social security that a person can live off.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methods her Department uses to calculate the minimum amount of social security that a person can live off.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
Under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 the Secretary of State is required by law to review State Pension and benefit rates each year to see if they have retained their value in relation to the general level of prices or earnings. We have uprate...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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