Kirsten Oswald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kirsten Oswald on 2016-07-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what account his Department takes of the short and long-term economic effect of the number of births in a household in setting the level of welfare benefits.

Damian Hinds

The law relating to the annual increases to certain social security benefits, known as up-rating, is set out in the Social Security Administration Act 1992.