{"id":16945,"date":"2025-03-28T10:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/?p=16945"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:14:56","slug":"spring-statement-2025-what-impact-could-it-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/news\/spring-statement-2025-what-impact-could-it-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Statement 2025: what impact could it have?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<html><body><p>This followed the previous week&rsquo;s announcement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/news\/pathways-to-work-green-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposals to change health and disability benefits and employment support<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These changes will impact some of the families we support and are causing worries and concerns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"an-overview-of-key-points\">An overview of key points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The basic rate of universal credit will rise by &pound;14 a week by 2029-30.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The health element of universal credit will be frozen for existing claimants until 2029-30 and reduced to &pound;50 for new claimants in 2026-27, before being frozen.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will be reviewed. In the meantime, the government has announced changes to the eligibility requirement for the daily living element of PIP.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our friends at Contact published an <a href=\"https:\/\/contact.org.uk\/about-contact\/news-and-views\/whats-in-the-pathways-to-work-disability-reform-green-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explanation of the proposed welfare reform changes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/contact.org.uk\/about-contact\/news-and-views\/your-questions-on-disability-welfare-reform-answered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with answers to key questions<\/a> you might have. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"sharing-families-experiences\">Sharing families&rsquo; experiences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We&rsquo;re collecting families&rsquo; views about the welfare reforms to support our consultation response to the Pathways to Work disability reform Green Paper. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have your say&nbsp;to ensure the voices of families raising disabled and seriously ill children are heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    \n<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/e\/eBb3gvxMhb\">\n    Let us know how this could affect you\n    <\/a>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 26 March, Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP set out the government\u2019s Spring Statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16947,"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-16945","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 - 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