Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 20 July 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he has made an assessment of the likely effects on those carers in receipt of carer's allowance of the (a) programme of expenditure reduction and (b) proposed increase in the rate of value added tax announced in the June 2010 Budget.
The Government took a number of steps in the Budget which will have an impact on carers receiving carer's allowance, including announcing that we would not take back the 1.5% advance in benefit rates that the previous Administration had intended and would instead uprate benefits, including carer's allowance, by CPI in future years as a measure of inflation. As we take further steps to reduce the fiscal deficit, we will continue to consider the impact carefully, whiles protecting those who are most vulnerable.
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