Due to the cost of living crisis, a number of payments have been handed out in a bid to help people with the increasing costs.
One of these is the DWP benefits, which is set to rise by 10.1 per cent next year, which hopes to help those from the poorest households. The increase, which will come into effect next April, was confirmed by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his recent Autumn Statement, after months of speculation.
However campaigners warned, according to Birmingham Live, that unless benefits were raised to match inflation, the worst-off families would be left facing a significant real-terms reduction in their benefit payments.
