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April 2017 benefit changes
A quick round-up of some of the benefit changes happening in April 2017, with links to key rightsnet news stories ...
New briefing from the Commons Library:
Welfare changes forecast to save the Exchequer around £1.7 billion in 2019-20 start to take effect this Thursday (6 April 2017). These are taking place alongside other changes, such as increases to the National Living Wage and tax-free Personal Allowance.
Measures include cuts to Child and Working Tax Credits, Housing Benefit and incapacity benefits, changes to Universal Credit and reform of support paid to bereaved families. Taken together, these account for around 14% of the roughly £12 billion of welfare cuts announced by then Chancellor George Osborne at Summer Budget 2015.
Many of these changes affect new claimants only. As a result, there is potential in coming years for benefit claimants in the same circumstances (i.e. the same earnings, housing costs and number of children) to receive differing awards depending on when and where they started their claim.
Thank you Shawn!
Just sat down to get together updates on changes for worker’s meeting - saved me a lot of time and effort!
Yay ... cheers Maggie ..... let’s take the rest of the day off!!