2019 Weekly MESL Expenditure Budgets

The weekly core costs of a Minimum Essential Standard of Living in 2019 are illustrated above, the full range of MESL budgets for all household types and compositions are also available to download below.

Further Data

MESL core budgets (excluding housing, childcare & effect of secondary benefits) for further Household Types are available to download:

The full MESL 2019 Update Report and Appendix is also available to download