Uprating for all

Child Poverty Action Group, Age UK and Save the Children have produced a joint briefing on the importance of uprating all benefits and the state pension in line with inflation.

From families with kids to grandparents to single older people – those living on low incomes have nothing left to cut. The prices of essentials like energy and food have risen faster than other costs, and because low-income families and older people spend more on essentials as a proportion of their income, their costs have increased even more. It’s essential that benefits and the state pension rise with inflation to start to catch up with soaring costs. People need reassurance urgently that this will happen, especially now there is no longer certainty about support with energy costs after April.