The chancellor confirmed in the October budget that  working age benefits will be uprated by 1.7% from April 2025, in line with the September 2024 consumer Price Index.

Liz Kendall later confirmed this in a written statement, making clear that the same uprating would apply to all disability benefits and to carer’s allowance .

Below are our provisional uprated amounts for benefits to be paid from April 2024 to 2025, based on a 1.7% increase.  Official uprating figures should be published next month and we will check these figures then.

Attendance allowance

higher rate from 108.55  to 110.40

lower rate from 72.65 to 73.89

Carers Allowance

From 81.90 to 83.29

Disability Living Allowance

Care Component
Highest from 108.55 to 110.40

Middle from 72.65 to 73.89

Lowest from 28.70 to 29.19

Mobility Component
Higher from 75.75 to 77.04

Lower from 28.70 to 29.19

ESA components

work-related activity from 35.95 to 36.56

support from 47.70 to 48.51

Personal Independence Payment

Daily living component
Enhanced from 108.55  to 110.40

Standard from 72.65 to 73.89

Mobility component
Enhanced from 75.75 to 77.04

Standard from 28.70 to 29.19

Universal credit

Limited Capability for Work amount from 156.11 to 158.76

Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity amount from 416.19 to 423.27

 

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      · 14 hours ago
      @Jonno If Labour seek to go through with the Tories' changes then this would be moot unless legal challenges took place which would hold water given the DWP's disclosure that the proposed changes was about cuts rather than helping claimants into work. 
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    · 21 hours ago
    I just don't understand how they can increase it by such a small amount.  Rents are continually going up at an unprecedented rate, and apparently LHA rates are frozen from this year onwards?  They're not even mentioned in this article, yet rent is the biggest cost in many people's budget. 

    Has there been any news about this?
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      · 17 hours ago
      @MJ M.J. I am not sure where you get the 'big rise for  public sector workers' from, mine is below 1.5 %
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      · 19 hours ago
      @Alex Even if they had uprated LHA by 1.7% that would've made little difference to rent shortfalls, they have to increase it by the lowest 30th and also abolish bedroom tax to make a difference. 
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      · 20 hours ago
      @Alex Totally agree 1.7% is tiny compared to 4.1 for pensions and the big pay rises for public sector workers. Also this is only a temporary blip in the inflation trend, it is suppose to go back up to over 2% by next April.

      And as you rightly point out the housing benefit from LHA has been frozen. Yet my rent still goes up and my housing benefit doesn't cover it. So my benefits get lower each year!
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      · 20 hours ago
      @Alex Everything will be going up, our rent community tax, food etc and this measly increase will not cover it.
      I am on means tested benefits so I have to pay all my own rent and community tax.
      I worked all my adult life until I had to take early ill health retirement on health grounds.
      I'm seriously worried I may become homeless because I'm struggling financially.
      Goodness knows what Liebour have in store for benefit reforms.  

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