Millions of people's benefits will rise by just 37p a week in April, the government has confirmed today. So-called 'legacy' benefits as well as those for carers will rise by only 0.5%, the latest rate of CPI inflation, for 2021/22.
That means a rise of just 37p a week to the £74.35 standard rate of Jobseekers' Allowance or sickness and disability benefit Employment and Support Allowance.
Those benefits together are claimed by around 2million people, many of them sick or disabled. They include some of the most vulnerable people in society.
The rise for children and under-25s looks set to be even smaller, and the separate Carer's Allowance looks set to rise by just 34p.
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