Minimum Income Guarantee (Hansard, 15 November 2000)

HC Deb 15 November 2000 vol 356 c711W 711W

§ Mr. Field
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when his Department will publish the study of Minimum Income Guarantee take-up. [136943]

§ Mr. Rooker
The Minimum Income Guarantee take-up campaign is still in progress.

§ Mr. Mitchell
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many applications resulted from his Department's most recent take-up campaign for the Minimum Income Guarantee for pensioners; how many were successful; and what were the principal reasons for failure. [137267]

§ Mr. Rooker
The current Minimum Income Guarantee take-up campaign is still in progress. So far, we have had over 600,000 responses, and around half of those claims already processed have been successful.