Sentences with phrase «benefits uprating»

12.30 pm: MPs start debating the welfare benefits uprating bill.

The DWP's welfare benefits uprating bill impact assessment (the Whitehall document spelling out the exact financial implications of a piece of legislation) runs to 11 pages.

Liam Byrne, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will speak for Labour in the welfare benefits uprating bill debate.

Nothing in the benefits uprating bill being debated by MPs today will help more people find work and increase low wages - despite these being the best ways to reduce welfare spending.

I've already mentioned some of the alternative accounts of the IFS report about the welfare benefits uprating bill.

The Department for Work and Pensions has just published an impact assessment for the welfare benefits uprating bill.

Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, debates the controversial welfare benefits uprating bill in the House of Commons

• The welfare benefits uprating bill, which will impose a 1 % cap on working - age benefit increases until 2016, has easily passed its first Commons hurdle.

Children's Society report on benefits uprating is flawed re the forces - very few «2nd Lieutenants with 3 children» actually exist...

According to the Daily Telegraph, the welfare benefits uprating bill is going to clobber people in work.

Harriet Harman, his Labour shadow, challenged him to defend the welfare benefits uprating bill and their exchanges mostly did not add anything new to the debate.

The Commons debate on the welfare benefits uprating bill will start at around 2 pm and I will be covering it in detail.

The UK Women's Budget Group, a group of independent experts, released analysis by Howard Reed of Landman Economics, showing the poorest 10 % of households will, on average, lose 1.9 % of their weekly income, and the second poorest 10 % will lose 1.6 % from the benefits uprating squeeze.

«Decisions on benefit uprating should be taken at fiscal events and in light of the fiscal circumstances.

Not exact matches

The government must review pensions and benefits each year against increases in prices and uprate them by at least the same percentage.

Much of this is due to the uprating of benefits, which will only increase by one per cent rather than inflation.

Uprating benefits at 1pc, means people get more cash, but less than the rate of inflation.

But most working age benefits including Job Seekers Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Income Support — will be uprated by 1pc for the next three years.

Only for frontbench ally Barry Gardiner to «clarify» hours later that Corbyn hadn't meant he would uprate all benefits, just some, costing # 2bn a year.

The detailed plan will see all the main working - age benefits, including child benefit, frozen at their post-election levels rather than being uprated in line with inflation.

Where changes are fair, proportionate and encourage work we will support them as we have shown in respect of incapacity benefit, a reformed gateway for Disability Living Allowance and on upratings.

«Labour voted against the benefit cap, against reducing the cost of housing benefit, against universal credit and now Labour will vote against the uprating bill in the new year.»

The Lib Dems were also pleased to have fought off proposals to uprate out - of - work benefits by less than September's 5.2 % rate of inflation on the CPI measure.

What impact would minimum alcohol pricing have on inflation and the uprating of benefits bills in the future?

Asked about the way people like George Osborne have been using the welfare uprating bill to depict Labour as the party of «shirking» benefit claimaints, Clegg said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision [the decision to pass a bill capping benefit rises at 1 %] as one which divides one set of people off against another, the deserving or the undeserving poor, in work or out of work.»

The work and pensions secretary released the figures ahead of next week's upratings bill is debated in the Commons, when MPs will vote on the government's plans to put the brakes on future benefits increases.

They are more akin to benefits, and indeed there is a direct link between how public sector pensions and benefits are uprated with inflation, that people become entitled to by working in the public sector than the sort of claim someone has on a private sector pension fund.

The Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security in 1998, Iain Duncan Smith said in a parliamentary debate on uprating of benefits:

The standard 2016 Mercedes - AMG C63 features a mechanical limited - slip locking differential at the rear while the uprated C63 S benefits from a more precise electronic rear differential.

A stainless steel exhaust system and brand new, bespoke exhaust manifolds help the V12 breath as freely as possible to best harness the benefits of the uprated turbos.

While there were a handful of modifications carried out to make the rally version more aerodynamic and lighter than the production model, it also benefited from an uprated engine producing around 228bhp.

• Revised ZF 6HP26 transmission with «Quickshift» system that cuts shift times by 50 % and enables double downshifts • New 40/60 rear - biased torque split for the all - wheel drive system reduces understeer when powering out of bends and provides for better modulation of line and attitude by «throttle steering» • Retuned Continuous Damping Control (CDC) system, stiffer suspension bushes and uprated rear anti-roll bar benefit body control, steering response, turn - in and balance • Increased 50 mm rear track improves grip and stability • Lightweight, 20 - inch, 10 - spoke alloy wheels offer 10 kg (22 lb) weight saving per car, reducing unsprung and rotating mass and improving brake • 275/35 ZR20 Pirelli Ultra High Performance tyres • Advanced ESP system fully exploits potential of the most powerful W12 engine and improved chassis • Standard - fit carbon - ceramic brakes provide fade - free braking and contribute a 20 kg (44 lb) reduction in rotating and unsprung mass from the front axle.