Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 57141

Employment and Support Allowance: Uprating

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 12 June 2025

Question

Mr Will Forster

Liberal DemocratWoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people on legacy Employment and Support Allowance receive the same inflation increase as people on other benefits.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is a single benefit with two strands, contribution-based ESA, ESA C (which was rebadged New Style ESA (NS ESA)), and income-related ESA (ESA IR). Legacy ESA is made up of a contributory (ESA C) and income-related str...

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