Child Benefit: Uprating

(asked on 17th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a triple lock protection for child benefit to adjust for rising living costs.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 22nd January 2018

The Child Benefit rate is frozen for four tax years from 2016-17 to 2019-20 under the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016. Between 1980 and 2014 spending on working-age welfare trebled in real terms.

The government continues to protect the most vulnerable in society. The government will be spending £10bn more on welfare for people of working age and children by the end of this parliament than it does now.

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