Poverty: Disability
(asked on 20th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on the (a) number and (b) rate of disabled people in poverty of increasing benefits in line with average earnings instead of inflation.
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has an annual statutory duty to review benefits and State Pensions rates. That review has commenced following the publication of the relevant indices by the Office for National Statistics.
These are CPI in year to September 2022 published on 19 October, and earnings growth in the year May-July 2022 published on 11 October. The Secretary of State’s decisions will be announced to Parliament shortly.
National Statistics on the number of disabled people in low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. Latest statistics, covering up until 2019/20 can be found here: