May. 16 2024
Source Page: The Green Book: appraisal and evaluation in central governmentFound: BEIS guidance recommends an uprating assumption of 1.5% per year in real terms.
May. 16 2024
Source Page: The Green Book: appraisal and evaluation in central governmentFound: BEIS guidance recommends an uprating assumption of 1.5% per year in real terms.
May. 16 2024
Source Page: Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2023 to 2024 estimatesFound: The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pays welfare benefits to around 22.7 million people.
Correspondence May. 16 2024
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: 15 May 2024 Rt Hon Mel Stride MP Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (By e-mail
May. 15 2024
Source Page: Valuation Office Agency Rent Officers: Private Rented Market StatisticsFound: been a shift towards using the CPI in preference to using the RPI for a number of uses, including; uprating
Report May. 14 2024
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: _______________ 10 Regulation making powers _____________________________________________ 11 Annual uprating
Correspondence May. 08 2024
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: Peter Schofield CB Permanent Secretary Department for Work and Pensions Caxton Tothill Street London
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of disabled people who experience one-off extra costs as a result of their disability.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
No such estimates have been made
As of April 2024, the rate of inflation has slowed, and the Government has also implemented uprating to benefits to reflect increased costs. We also increased extra costs disability benefits by 10.1 per cent from April 2023 and by 6.7% from April 2024 in line with the Consumer Price Index.
For 2023/24 we estimate that nearly 60 per cent of individuals who received an extra costs disability benefit would have received the means-tested benefit Cost of Living Payments, worth up to £900. Over 85 per cent would have received either or both of the means-tested and the £300 Pensioner Cost of Living Payment.
An evaluation of the Cost of Living Payments is underway. This will seek to understand their effectiveness as a means of support for low-income and vulnerable household.
Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department calculates the estimated cost of living for disabled people.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
No such estimates have been made
As of April 2024, the rate of inflation has slowed, and the Government has also implemented uprating to benefits to reflect increased costs. We also increased extra costs disability benefits by 10.1 per cent from April 2023 and by 6.7% from April 2024 in line with the Consumer Price Index.
For 2023/24 we estimate that nearly 60 per cent of individuals who received an extra costs disability benefit would have received the means-tested benefit Cost of Living Payments, worth up to £900. Over 85 per cent would have received either or both of the means-tested and the £300 Pensioner Cost of Living Payment.
An evaluation of the Cost of Living Payments is underway. This will seek to understand their effectiveness as a means of support for low-income and vulnerable household.
Found: average of £3,300 per UK household.52 3.32 At Autumn Statement 2023, the government announced benefits uprating