{"id":15059,"date":"2024-10-31T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/?p=15059"},"modified":"2024-10-31T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:58:17","slug":"budget-2024-affect-families-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/news\/budget-2024-affect-families-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"How will the Government\u2019s Autumn 2024 Budget affect families raising a disabled child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<html><body><p>Like everyone, this week we were looking at the government&rsquo;s budget announcements on Wednesday to see what it might mean for the families we support &ndash; families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people, on low incomes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&nbsp;was good news in the form of increases in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the National Minimum Wage&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the amount carers can earn and&nbsp;still keep&nbsp;Carers Allowance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>funding for Special Needs education, and funding for more teachers in all schools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>funding for breakfast clubs at school<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>funding for the NHS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"in-wider-increases-that-will-help-families\">In wider increases that will help families:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From April next year the National Minimum Wage will&nbsp;go up&nbsp;to &pound;12.21 per hour for those aged over 20,&nbsp;up&nbsp;to &pound;10 per hour for those aged 18-20, and&nbsp;up&nbsp;to &pound;7.55 per hour for&nbsp;16 and 17 year olds.&nbsp;The&nbsp;apprentice rate will also rise to &pound;7.55 per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amount that carers can earn before losing Carers Allowance&nbsp;will also go up&nbsp;to &pound;195 per week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chancellor did not announce a change to the cliff-edge drop-off&nbsp;(where you lose the whole allowance even if you&rsquo;re only 1p over the earnings limit). But she&nbsp;said&nbsp;she&nbsp;is looking&nbsp;at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carers Allowance will increase to &pound;83.29 per week&nbsp;in the Spring,&nbsp;when all benefits&nbsp;will rise&nbsp;by 1.7%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good news for people on Universal Credit: Smaller amount will be allowed to be taken off to pay off&nbsp;debts. It will now be at most&nbsp;15%, instead of 25%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"other-issues\">Other issues:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government is&nbsp;also&nbsp;putting &pound;1 billion into carrying on the Household Support Fund next year.&nbsp;Families who rely on a car because of their child&rsquo;s additional needs&nbsp;will be glad to hear that the freeze on&nbsp;Fuel&nbsp;Duty will continue. Though families who rely on buses will be worried about the&nbsp;cap on bus fares going up to &pound;3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chancellor also announced&nbsp;an extra&nbsp;&pound;1&nbsp;billion to be spent on Special Needs education and &pound;2.3 billion more for schools, plus &pound;1.4 billion to be spent on rebuilding 500 schools &ldquo;in the greatest need, and &pound;2.1 billion to improve school maintenance&rdquo;.&nbsp;The NHS will get &pound;22.6 billion more. Local Authorities will receive new funding for social care spending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s a lot to take in. But&nbsp;whatever the ups and downs, in this budget and the coming months,&nbsp;at Family Fund we will keep supporting as many UK families raising disabled and seriously ill children as we can with crucial grants and services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"more-information\">More information:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/autumn-budget-2024\">read the budget document in full&nbsp;on the gov.uk website<\/a>, and the BBC has a list of key points from the budget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdxl1zd07l1o\">on their website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like everyone, this week we were looking at the government&rsquo;s budget announcements on Wednesday to see what it might mean for the families we support &ndash; families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people, on low incomes.&nbsp; There&nbsp;was good news in the form of increases in: In wider increases that will help families: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_mixd_wp_review_post_reminders":[],"_mixd_wp_review_date":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-15059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How will the Government\u2019s Autumn 2024 Budget affect families raising a disabled child? 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