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Linda Howard & Aaron Morris

Liz Truss confirms State Pension to increase with inflation next April but other benefits not yet confirmed

Disability equality charity SCOPE is urging the United Kingdom's Government to keep promises made to uprate benefits next year in line with inflation.

It comes after Chief Secretary of the Treasury, Chris Philip, declined to say whether or not common DWP benefits will rise once more in April 2023.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, he said: “There’s a statutory process, a legal process which the Government goes through every year, it’s led by the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] Secretary [Chloe Smith], it happens as a matter of routine every autumn."

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