Historical rise in benefits

mumps

Hi
I have googled this but can't quite find what I am looking for so I am hoping someone can help me. I am trying to help someone and need some figures so could anyone point me to the percentage increase in benefits for the last 20 years. Thanks in advance.

[Deleted User]

look for the rate of RPI in september for each year,that was used to increase benefits until this year

Gentile

For the past decade under Labour it has risen at double the rate of normal wage increases just so that Labour voting pool have the motivation to get up and go to the voting booth.

[Deleted User]

Gentile wrote: »

For the past decade under Labour it has risen at double the rate of normal wage increases just so that Labour voting pool have the motivation to get up and go to the voting booth.

is that why the tories are punishing the jobless for the next 3 years?

BigAunty

Percentage of GDP spent on benefits...?

paddedjohn

woodbine wrote: »

is that why the tories are punishing the jobless for the next 3 years?

No, it's why the Tories are rewarding those who have been paying the bills for the last umpteen years by showing will help genuine cases but not the scroungers.

[Deleted User]

this really isnt the place for a political argument,however i will say this and no more,is it right that jsa which is now £71 a week will by 2016 only be £73 per week?really?

princessdon

woodbine wrote: »

this really isnt the place for a political argument,however i will say this and no more,is it right that jsa which is now £71 a week will by 2016 only be £73 per week?really?

Plus rent and CT. People who work have had 0% increases recently plus rental increases.

Though I have huge sympathy for JSA only claimants - when workers who pay that benefit are feeling the pinch and not getting pay rises why should they? Very few are unemployed for 2 years plus.

xylophone

http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/monitoring-poverty-2012
might be of interest

mumps

woodbine wrote: »

look for the rate of RPI in september for each year,that was used to increase benefits until this year

Brilliant, thank you so much I am going to try that now.

BurnleyBob

paddedjohn wrote: »

No, it's why the Tories are rewarding those who have been paying the bills for the last umpteen years by showing will help genuine cases but not the scroungers.

You mean they are going to reward those hard working firemen, soldiers, nurses, teachers, etc, etc, by limiting their pay increases to one percent for the next three years and so effectively cutting their income in real terms?

Or like those hard working strivers who are in receipt of the New Minimum Wage? Their pay has increased by less than the rate of inflation for the past three years so they too have been toiling for less and less.

Those in receipt of state benefits (and there's an awful lot of them - 85% of UK households) have, with the exception of Child Benefit recipients, kept pace with inflation (at least the CPI measure of it) but haven't become richer per se.

This dog eat dog, pitting the poor versus the poorer attitude around here which is so prevalent amongst the chronically stupid contributors is disheartening to put it mildly.