State Pension and most benefits delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) including Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) will increase by 3.1 per from today.
The payment rate changes were signed off in February in the House of Commons and will be applied to payments from Monday, April 11 2022, for people receiving State Pension or benefits through the DWP in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland - where corresponding provisions will be made there.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation recently called on the UK Government to increase all DWP-delivered benefits by 7% in line with the ever-increasing rate of inflation, which now stands at 6.2%, and warned that sticking to the 3.1% uptake would result in 400,000 families who rely on benefits being plunged into poverty.
