Three reforms to universal credit, the UK’s main working-age means-tested benefit received by 6.6 million families, take effect on 6 April 2026. Together, they will change the incomes of almost all who receive the benefit … First, the real value of the UC standard allowance will be increased by 2.3% more than inflation … Second,…
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Check how Universal Credit is changing in 2026
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/universal-credit/claiming/check-how-universal-credit-is-changing-in-2026/ The government have announced changes to Universal Credit that will affect everyone from April 2026. These changes are the result of the Universal Credit Act 2025 and the November 2025 budget. The amount of Universal Credit you get will change. This is because the Universal Credit ‘standard allowance’ is increasing. A monthly Universal Credit…
rightsnet updates on today’s budget include:
Budget 2025: Two-child limit within universal credit to be removed from April 2026 Budget 2025: Extension of targeted case reviews in universal credit expected to achieve further £1.3 billion in savings in 2030/2031 Budget 2025: Government confirms that ‘relevant threshold’ for purposes of calculating surplus earnings under universal credit to stay at £2,500 for an…
Budget 2025 fact sheet: Cutting the Cost of Living
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/budget-2025-fact-sheet-cutting-the-cost-of-living This Budget takes levies off energy bills to save families £150 on average next year, and up to £300 for some poorer households. The historic decision to remove the two-child limit in full from April 2026 will lift 450,000 children out of poverty -rising to around 550,000 alongside other measures announced this year, such…
Universal Credit claimants statistics on the two child limit policy, April 2025
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025/universal-credit-claimants-statistics-on-the-two-child-limit-policy-april-2025 The statistics show: in April 2025, 469,780 Universal Credit households were affected by the two child limit policy: that is, they had a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017. This was an increase of 13,520 (3%) from the total number of households affected on either Universal Credit or Child…
Turning the tide
What it will take to reduce child poverty in the UK
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/turning-the-tide/ On the Government’s headline measure of relative poverty after housing costs, 4.3 million children (three-in-ten) were living in relative poverty across the UK in 2022-23. On an international measure accounting for both housing and energy costs, the UK’s relative child poverty rate is higher than in any EU or EFTA nation bar Greece. On…
The Living Standards Outlook 2024
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/the-living-standards-outlook-2024/ After what looks set to be the worst Parliament on record for income growth, the new Government came to power promising to kickstart economic growth as the first of its ‘five missions’, emphasising that this is the key to unlocking improvements in living standards. This is the right area to focus on as, prior…
Help us imagine a better future
https://cpag.org.uk/what-we-do/our-campaigns/help-us-imagine-better-future 4.3 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. They are isolated and excluded.
Labour suspends MPs voting against 2 child limit.
First rebellion for Starmer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/23/labour-mps-vote-to-scrap-two-child-benefit-cap-in-first-rebellion-for-starmer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Keir Starmer’s government has suffered its first rebellion after Labour MPs voted with opposition parties to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Despite there being no question of Labour losing a vote on the issue given its majority of 174, parliamentarians said they were alarmed by the strength of warnings from whips about rebelling early…