End to benefits freeze branded a ‘cynically timed’ decision at election time

By Scott MacNab
Published 4th Nov 2019, 06:45 BST
The benefits freeze is to end in April, the UK Government has confirmed, in a move criticised by Labour as a “cynically-timed announcement”.

Universal Credit and other welfare payments will rise 1.7 per cent in line with inflation and the state pension will increase by 3.9 per cent, the Department for Work and Pensions (DwP) said yesterday.

Labour said “nobody will be fooled” by the announcement in the run-up to the 12 December election, with the SNP branding it a “cynical bribe”.

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