Social Security Benefits: Uprating
(asked on 10th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 8 July (HL16599), what would (1) the weekly rates of Child Benefit, and (2) the monthly rates of Universal Credit standard allowances and child elements have been, if they had been raised in line with the Consumer Price Index.
If the weekly rates of child benefit had been uprated with CPI the rates would have been:
| Amount in 2019/20 if they had been uprated with CPI |
First Child Rate | 22.05 |
Subsequent Child Rate | 14.60 |
If the monthly rates for the Universal Credit standard allowance and child element had been uprated with CPI from 2016/17 to 2019/20 the rates would have been:
| Amount in 2019/20 if they had been uprated with CPI |
Single under 25 | 268.21 |
Single 25 and over | 338.57 |
Joint claimants both under 25 | 420.99 |
Joint claimants one or both over 25 | 531.46 |
Child amount (standard amount) | 246.79 |
More information on benefit uprating can be found at: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8458/CBP-8458.pdf