Benefit payment rates are soon set to go up for all claimants as April ushers in a new financial year. Welfare recipients can expect to see higher rates for every benefit they claim, which will be necessary to offset some of the household costs set to to rise around the same time.
Payments for all benefits will be increasing by 1.7 per cent next month, including Child Benefit, Universal Credit and the Personal Independence Payment (PIP). This is in line with the September 2024 inflation figure, as is usual, although CPI has risen sharply since then, sitting at 3.9 per cent in January.
