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At a Glance Guide to Benefit Changes announced in the Autumn Budget 2024.
Changes include-
Yearly uprating of Benefts, Universal Credit Migration, Universal Credit Direct Deduction Rate, Carers Allowance Earnings Threshold,
Independent Review of Carers Allowance Overpayment, Bringing together the administration of Housing Beneft and Pension Credit, Pension Credit take up, Household Support Fund extended,
Universal Credit Surplus earnings threshold,
Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen, Work Capability Assessment Reform and Get Britain Working White Paper, National Minimum wage increase, National Minimum Wage Equalisation, Fraud and Error, Child Beneft Means Test to remain based on single incomes
In our July 2024 newsletter we looked at
possible improvements for the UC system.
One of these has been partially implemented Destitution reduced- reduction of the maximum deduction rates from 25% to 10% of standard allowance