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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

We certainly want it to be more worth while for people to be in work, but forcing down the incomes of those who are out of work is not the way to do it.

Clause 1 affects mainly out-of-work benefits, but people struggling to make ends meet in work are hit as well. Schedule 1(b) means that the personal allowance used in the calculation of housing benefit for people in work will go up by only 1%, irrespective of what happens to rent levels.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
557 c51 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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