Social Security Benefits: Uprating

(asked on 7th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to (a) end the benefits freeze and (b) uprate the value of (i) universal credit and (ii) other social security payments in the next twelve months.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 13th January 2020

The freeze on working age benefits will end in April 2020.

A table of benefit and pensions rates pending Parliamentary approval were deposited in the House Library on 29 November 2019 -

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/

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