61 h. ago HMRC benefit increases happening in April 2025 including child benefit and minimum wage

Different HMRC benefits, along with the National Minimum Wage, are increasing this month - full list of new rates

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69 h. ago HMRC confirms change to Child Benefit due to start this summer

Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance payments will rise on April 7.

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4 d. ago HMRC making major change to benefit claimed by over 7 million households this week

Child Benefit rates are set to increase by 1.7% in April - here's a full list of how much each payment will go up by

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4 d. ago Full list of DWP benefits rising by 1.7% from April including Universal Credit, PIP and Child Benefit

Most DWP and HMRC benefit payments are increased every year by the previous September level of inflation - this was confirmed to be 1.7% and the rise will soon hit bank accounts

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7 d. ago How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot

Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capitalThe democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in.So what’s the game? Why adopt policies that could scarcely be better calculated to prevent your re-election? Why stick to outdated fiscal rules when projections suggest they’ll make almost everyone worse off, especially those in poverty? Why impose devastating attacks on wellbeing, such as sustaining the two-child benefit cap, freezing local housing allowance and...

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer is one of Labour’s most rightwing prime ministers. And one of its most leftwing, too | Andy Beckett

The PM offers a political hybrid designed for a fickle electorate. There are short-term electoral gains to be won, but risks in the long termFor more than eight months now, since shortly after Labour won power, more and more people have been outraged by the government’s moves to the right. Starting with its decision to keep the Conservatives’ cruel two-child benefit cap last July, the government has regularly given these critics reasons to feel shocked, betrayed or just disappointed.From deportation videos to Keir Starmer’s declaration that “I like and respect” Donald Trump, from repeated public sector cuts to the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s talk of “tearing down regulatory barriers” in this week’s spring statement, Labour has often behaved as if the boundaries between its supposedly centre-left politics and the politics of the right or even the far right have simply melted away. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Proportion of children living in low income families, by local area

Relative low income is defined here as any family claiming child benefit and at least one other household benefit.

Society

8 d. ago Labour MPs threaten 'the mother of all rebellions' over benefit cuts with 'dozens' ready to revolt as child poverty hits record level

More than 30 backbenchers are said to be ready to vote against plans to make it harder to claim incapacity benefits and personal independence payments (Pip).

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1 week ago Child benefit increase for April revealed – here are all the welfare rates you need to know

All benefit payment rates will be increasing in April

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1 week ago This government has one last chance to take a progressive path. Otherwise, we’re at the point of no return | John McDonnell

In her spring statement, I urge Rachel Reeves to look beyond short-term economic stability – and towards tackling long-term inequalityIf someone read out the following list of policies, which party would you think was in power? Depriving 2 million pensioners of the winter fuel allowance. Refusing to scrap the two-child benefit cap to lift nearly half a million children out of poverty. Raising tuition fees for students by more than the rate of inflation. Cutting overseas aid to the poorest people across the globe by half. Cutting £5bn from benefits for disabled people. Introducing a new round of cuts to government department spending and laying off 50,000 public sector workers.I very much doubt even 12 months ago you would have thought that this would be the Labour party in government.John McDonnell is the independent MP for Hayes and Harlington. He was shadow chancellor for Labour from 2015 to 2020 Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Women who gave birth in 1980s and 1990s could be missing huge £7,859 DWP payment

The HMRC has sent letters to 370,000 people who are owed an average of £7,859 due to application forms for Child Benefit failing to include National Insurance numbers before 2000

Economics

2 w. ago Parents and carers urged to check if they are missing DWP State Pension boost

Those who claimed Child Benefit or Income Support may be eligible to receive extra cash on their State Pension

Events

3 w. ago Plan to let parents fix holes in state pension records if they didn't claim child benefit given green light

The Government has confirmed it is going ahead with plans to let parents fill gaps in their state pension records if they didn't claim child benefit.

Society

3 w. ago Rachel Reeves refuses to deny reports two child benefit cap could be eased for under fives

The UK Government is expected to announce plans to cut spending on disability and sickness benefits, but reports have also suggested Ministers could partially scrap the two child cap.

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4 w. ago HMRC Child Benefit claimants to see major change this Easter

Child Benefit is paid every four weeks by HMRC and is claimed by more than seven million families

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4 w. ago Investor says parents should do one thing now to turn Child Benefit payments into £45k

Antonia Medlicott has taken to TikTok to detail an alternative approach to receiving four-weekly Child Benefit payments, explaining how can look forward to a lump sum instead

Economics

4 w. ago Parents could be due over £212 in monthly payments to help with daily costs from April

Scottish Child Payment, Child Benefit and Best Start Grants can provide crucial financial support for families.

Economics

last month Scottish Child Payment and other Scots benefits set to increase

The Social Justice Secretary is set to make the announcement on Thursday.

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