Our Minimum Income Guarantee Campaign
Our Minimum Income Guarantee Campaign
152,000 adults with a learning disability get social care support in England.
Social care support is the help people need to live their lives.
This can mean help to do things like going out to see friends, taking medicine, or washing.
Social care support is different for different people.
The local
council
A council is also called a local authority. They are a group of people who make decisions about some of the things in the area where you live. These include: schools, social care (support for people), parks and dustbin collection.
looks at whether someone can pay for their own social care support.
Some people will be able to pay for social care support from benefits or their pay if they have a job.
The government The Government are the people who run the country. They decide how much tax people should pay for things and how things like the National Health Service should work. says how much money people should be left with if they pay for their social care support.
This is called the Minimum Income Income is all the money you get from things like paid jobs and government benefits. Guarantee.
When the government increased benefits, they did not increase the Minimum Income Guarantee.
This means that people are at risk of losing the extra benefits money, because they could be asked to pay more for their social care support.
Mencap says the government must increase the Minimum Income Guarantee at the same rate that benefits are going up.
This means people with a learning disability who get social care can keep more of their benefits.
You can support Mencap’s campaign A campaign is when people work together to try to change something. by writing to your MP.
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