Employment and Support Allowance: Underpayments Debate
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Andrea Jenkyns
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Employment and Support Allowance: Underpayments
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Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood) (Con)
What financial support is available for disabled people who incur costs relating to their condition that welfare payments are not designed to meet?
Sarah Newton
I think my hon. Friend is talking about the benefits that are available for the additional costs of disability. There are three benefits there: disability living allowance, attendance allowance and the personal independence payment. As a country, we are going to spend over £50 billion on those benefits this year, which is a £4 billion increase on 2010, and those benefits are of course uprated each year.