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<p>The Welfare Reform and Work Bill introduces a four-year freeze for the main rates
of most working-age benefits from 2016-17 to 2019-20, as part of the Government’s
welfare reforms that are moving the country to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare
society.</p><p> </p><p>The freeze does not apply to benefits related to the additional
costs of disability, such as Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence
Payment; to the support group component of Employment and Support Allowance or the
limited capability for work and work-related activity amount in Universal Credit;
or to the disability premiums in Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance,
Income Support or Housing Benefit. Carers benefits and premiums are also exempted
from the freeze.</p>
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