Today, we are raising the earnings threshold from the equivalent of 15 hours to 18 hours at the National Living Wage for individuals claiming Universal Credit, helping more people to increase their hours and into well paid jobs as we stick to our plan to make work pay to ensure a brighter future.
- Welfare should always be a safety net, not a lifestyle choice. That is why, from today, we are raising the earnings threshold from the equivalent of 15 hours to 18 hours at the National Living Wage for an individual claimant of universal credit so those who work less than half of a full-time week will need to meet their work coach more often to boost their earnings. This will support more people on Universal Credit to increase their hours and into well paid jobs.
- We are sticking to the plan to make work pay and it is working, with people in full-time work now £7,000 better off than out-of-work benefits and our tax cuts putting £900 back in the pockets of millions of workers across Britain. In contrast, Labour continue to flipflop on whether they will scrap Universal Credit because they have no plan, taking us back to square one