Minimum Income Standards

Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Social Policy have been publishing Minimum Income Standard Reports since 2008. These reports produce budgets for different households outlining the minimum income level required to live well. They produce yearly reports covering the whole of the UK, but have produced special reports covering different regions and other challenges facing the population.

Minimum Income Standard reports have been used to inform policy, including calculating the Living Wage, informing the Scottish Government's fuel poverty measures, and has been used in other applications such as being used as a benchmark by charities for people in financial need. 

Regional reports have included a Rural England Report in 2010, Rural Scotland report in 2016, and reports on living in London, which have been published on a regular basis since 2015.

Special reports on the extra cost of disabilities and health issues include living with a visual impairment, living with a child who has autism, and poverty at the end of life.

 

Minimum Income Standards recent work

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2023 Minimum Income Standards Report

Read our news item on the 2023 Minimum Income Standards Report
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Living with dignity in the Capital

A London-specific report on living with dignity in the Capital, on which an event was held in the Houses of Parliament