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Our 2021 Budget submission

Briefing
Post date: 
09 February 2021

Our submission to the UK government ahead of the 2021 Budget makes the following recommendations: 

  • Use social security as an effective fiscal stimulus to help the economy recover from the pandemic
  • Prioritise long-term productive employment over getting people back into any job quickly
  • Invest in childcare, in particular extended schools, to help increase the labour market opportunities of parents
  • Keep the £20 upratings – removing them would see 300,000 children pushed into poverty
  • Scrap the benefit cap and two-child limit – this would only cost £1.4 billion and would pull 200,000 children out of poverty and 450,000 children out of deep poverty
  • Increase child benefit by £10 a week – providing a small income boost to all families affected by COVID. This would reduce child poverty by 450,000
  • Increase the eligibility threshold for free school meals to all families receiving universal credit or working tax credit

 

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