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Welfare reform changes

In this section

  1. Changes affecting pensioners
  2. Changes affecting Disability Living Allowance/Personal Independence Payments
  3. National Minimum Wage and Living Wage
  4. Local Housing Allowance
  5. You are here: Working Tax Credit
  6. Benefits, your applicable amount
  7. Backdating of benefit claims
  8. Income Tax, personal allowance increase
  9. Child Benefit
  10. Temporary absence payments
  11. Family Premium and Allowances
  12. Benefit cap
  13. Families with more than two children
  14. ESA claimants, Removal of Work Related activity component
  15. Childcare for working parents
  16. Universal Credit
  17. Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) payments
  18. Employer Childcare Vouchers

Working Tax Credit

If you receive Working Tax Credit and your income increases by more than £2,500 in the current year then your Tax Credits will change. 

Previously the limit was £5,000 but this was changed in 2016.

Read more on the GOV.uk website 

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