Today’s rightsnet budget updates include,
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news-and-caselaw
Welfare rights
Budget 2024: Additional £90m being allocated to accelerate the move of ESA claimants to universal credit from September 2024
Budget 2024: Carer’s allowance weekly earnings limit to be increased to equivalent of 16 hours at the national living wage
Budget 2024: Universal credit claimants to be required to provide periodic redeclarations of their circumstances from April 2025
Budget 2024: Household Support Fund to be extended beyond March 2025
Budget 2024: Working age benefits to be be uprated by 1.7 per cent from April 2025
Budget 2024: Government says it will set out reforms to the health and disability benefits system early in 2025
Budget 2024: Universal credit debt deductions to be capped at 15 per cent of standard allowance
Budget 2024: Government confirms it will not proceed with previous government’s plans to assess the high income child benefit charge on household rather than individual income
Budget 2024: Government to set out details of £240 million investment to trail new ways of getting people into work in ‘Get Britain Working’ White Paper
Housing
Budget 2024: Government launches consultation on a new long-term social housing rent settlement and announces changes to the Right to Buy scheme
Employment
Budget 2024: National living wage to increase to £12.21 per hour from 1 April 2025