Changes to the National Living Wage will be coming into force from next month. The wage is due to increase by 6.6%, from £8.91 an hour to £9.50 an hour.
It means that around two million workers in the UK will get a pay rise. Read more:Child Benefit amount is changing for anyone who claims it from next month The 59p hourly boost will mean a full-time worker on the living wage will get a pay rise of more than £1,000 per year, according to the government.
But the rates will differ for under-21s, who instead receive the National Minimum Wage. Their rate will increase from: The Treasury confirmed in October ahead of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget that the increase for all over-23s will take place on 1 April 2022.
Critics questioned how much better off workers will be considering the Chancellor has already hiked National Insurance and cut Universal Credit as inflation rises.
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