Social Security Benefits

(asked on 21st June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of matching basic benefit levels to the Minimum Income Standards calculated annually by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 28th June 2017

The potential merits of matching basic benefit levels to the JRF’s Minimum Income Standard have not been assessed.

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