cash boost

• New analysis shows around 173,000 childcare workers across the UK would benefit from raising the minimum wage to £10 an hour
• Women, young people, and workers in the south east and south west of England would gain the most
• TUC calls for urgent cash boost to the childcare sector, and an immediate increase in the minimum wage to at least £10 an hour

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Almost two million of the lowest income working households who receive Universal Credit will today benefit from a cash boost worth £1,000 on average.

From: Department for Work and Pensions and The Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey MP

Published 24 November 2021

The Department for Work and Pensions has worked around the clock to implement a reduction to the Universal Credit taper rate as...