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From 1991 Child Benefit increased in line with inflation, until 1998, when the new Labour government increased the first child rate by more than 20%, and abolished the Lone Parent rate. New Labour oversaw the biggest increase in child benefit in UK history, with over 7.2 million mothers and 12.8 million children benefitting from a 25% rise ...
UK Government welfare expenditure 2014–15 [28] Benefit Expenditure (£bn) State pension: 86.5 Tax credits (Working tax credits and Child tax credits) 29.7 Housing Benefit: 23.5 Disability Living Allowance: 15.4 Incapacity benefits: 14.1 Child benefit: 11.6 Pension Credit: 6.6 Attendance Allowance: 5.4 Jobseeker's Allowance: 3.1 Income Support ...
From 2013 onwards, these payments were limited to a maximum annual increase of 1% instead of being increased annually according to the rate of inflation, while Child Benefit, previously available to all UK households with minor children was means-tested for the first time, with households where at least one parent earning over £50,000 a year ...
In the budget, Hunt abolished the non-dom tax status, reduced employee's national insurance by 2%, froze alcohol and fuel duties, increased tobacco and vapes duties, extended the oil and gas windfall tax, increased the child benefit threshold, announced further energy measures, announced further levelling-up funding, reduced capital gains tax ...
The Food Foundation asked more than 6,000 adults if they had skipped meals due to unaffordability or inaccessibility of food.
Twitter have nicknamed Sir Keir Starmer “Sir Kid Starver,” prompting the trending term to be referenced in episodes of Newsnight and Good Morning Britain. Labour plans to uphold the Tories ...
The benefit cap is a UK welfare policy that limits the amount in state benefits that an individual household can claim per year. It was introduced by the Cameron–Clegg coalition government in 2013 [1] as part of the coalition government's wide-reaching welfare reform agenda which included the introduction of Universal Credit and reforms of housing benefit and disability benefits.
The government heading of Welfare Expenditure covers payments made by the Department for Work and Pensions only, and does not include the cost of the tax credit system (covering in-work benefits) or child benefit, which are both paid by HMRC, making the total amount significantly larger.