Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 21453
Social Security Benefits
Tabled: 19 December 2024
Answered: 7 January 2025
Question
Seamus Logan
Scottish National Party — Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing an independent process to set benefit levels according to the cost of essential goods and services.
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsNo such assessment has been made. The Social Security Administration Act 1992 requires the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to review benefit and State Pension rates each year to see if they have retained their value in relation to the general lev...
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