I am sure the Minister is aware that the IFS analysed the distributional impact of tax and benefit changes between January 2010 and April 2015 as if universal credit were fully in place. It modelled the real-terms changes in household income at today’s prices with all the measures announced and UC fully implemented. It suggests that a one-earner couple with children will be £64 a week worse off. How does that equate to what she is saying?
Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Sherlock
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 5 March 2013.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill.
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