Thousands of British people in receipt of regular benefits payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) face seeing their entitlement cut from April 2024 despite the 6.7 per cent raise announced in the chancellor’s recent Autumn Statement, a charity has warned.
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has cautioned that Jeremy Hunt’s decision not to raise the benefit cap – the total amount people of working age in need can claim – in tandem with payments, as he did in his 2022 statement, will mean that the increase he did announce will actually serve to push more people beyond the cap’s threshold.
