Benefit Freeze Will Not Be Lifted Says DWP Minister Amber Rudd

The benefits freeze will not lift'ed in Wednesday’s Spring Statement, Amber Rudd has confirmed in a statement. There is to be no relief despite rising food prices and higher inflation. 

The Work and Pensions Secretary had faced calls from poverty campaigners to scrap the four-year policy, introduced in 2015 by then-Chancellor George Osborne.

Philip Hammond will not axe the freeze in this week’s Budget update, despite inflation seeing benefits claimants paid less in real terms and leaving many trapped in poverty and on the brink of destitution.

Brexit is overshadowing these socio-economic issues say those struggling to make ends meet.

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