Minimum Income Guarantee: Experts by Experience Panel report

Recommendations

The independent Minimum Income Guarantee Expert Group will provide recommendations to the Scottish Government on what they consider to be feasible steps towards delivering a Minimum Income Guarantee in Scotland. The views of the Expert by Experience Panel that have been shared throughout this process will shape and inform those recommendations. In particular, the principles summarised above will be used as tests throughout the policy design.

Therefore we recommend that:

• the full range of recommendations made within individual panel meetings are taken into consideration by the Expert Group when making decisions on any specific area the Panel has deliberated upon.
• the final recommended principles developed by the Panel are widely shared both within the Expert Group, the Minimum Income Guarantee Secretariat and aligned partners.
• that the full report of the Expert Group embeds both the recommendations made within Panel meetings, and the principles developed by the Expert by Experience Panel.

Beyond this, future decision makers including the Scottish Government, are asked to carefully consider the outputs from this process so that lived experience of financial insecurity remains at the core of the design and implementation of a Minimum Income Guarantee in Scotland.