Social Security Benefits
(asked on 27th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to restore inflation-linked up-rating to working age social security benefits.
This question was answered on 1st April 2019
The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 froze the majority of working-age benefits for four tax years from 2016-17.
The relevant provisions will lapse in 2020 and the pre-existing statutory arrangements will come back into force.