Supported by: Annie Wells*, Tom Mason*, Margaret Mitchell*, Maurice Corry*, Miles Briggs*, Ruth Maguire*, Edward Mountain*, Peter Chapman*, Jeremy Balfour*, Liam Kerr*, Michelle Ballantyne*, Bill Kidd*, Liz Smith*, Alexander Burnett* *S5M-07083 Alison Johnstone: Impact of the Benefit Freeze That the Parliament notes the — Joseph Rowntree Foundation s report, A Minimum Income Standard for the UK in 2017; ’ understands that it demonstrates that the social security system is increasingly not giving people who need support sufficient benefit income to meet the minimum income standard; agrees with its argument that this is largely down to the long-running freeze on the value of many benefits; Monday 14 August 2017 13 Today's Business Future Business Motions & Questions Legislation Other Gnothaichean an-diugh Gnothaichean ri teachd Gluasadan agus Ceistean Reachdas Eile Motions | Gluasadan understands that its findings tally with the research carried out for the Social Security Committee, which suggested that £300 million per year will by 700,000 household in Scotland by 2020-21, with an average loss of £450 annually; believes that the freeze impacts on families with children particularly hard; notes that the End Child Poverty Coalition's report, Feeling the Pinch, suggests that, by 2020, reductions in the value of benefits relative to costs of living...