DWP confirms payment boost for eight benefits due to start this month

People receiving a range of benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will see a payment increase from this month. The boost will affect pensioners, carers, parents and disabled people.

For those benefits that are paid every four weeks, many of the 2024/2025 increases came into effect from April 8. These will be fully applied in May.

Those who will be first to see it were scheduled to have been paid on Monday, May 6. However, due to the bank holiday, their payments will be brought forward to Friday, May 3, instead, reports BirminghamLive.

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Eight different benefits will see the new increases applied this month. These are:

• Attendance Allowance

• Carer's Allowance (can also be paid weekly in advance)

• Child Benefit (can also be paid weekly if you're a single parent or get certain benefits, managed by HMRC rather than DWP)

• Disability Living Allowance

• Maternity Allowance (can also be paid every two weeks)

• Pension Credit

• Personal Independence Payment

• State Pension (can also be paid weekly if requested)

All these are generally paid on the same day of the week every four weeks. Before the new payments on May 3, people will have had a mix of old and new weekly rates combined in their previous payout.

Universal Credit claimants won't see the new rates just yet. This benefit is issued to each recipient on the same date every month as their first payment and people need a full one-month assessment period starting on or after April 8.

That means the first people on Universal Credit to see the rise will be those who are paid on May 14 following an assessment period that ran from April 8 to May 7. All payments made before that will have been at the old 2023-2024 rates.

People on benefits that are paid every week or two weeks will have had the increased amounts during April. This is particularly relevant for those who are receiving Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support.

New payment rates

Attendance Allowance

• Higher rate: £108.55 (from £101.75)

• Lower rate: £72.65 (from £68.10)

Carer's Allowance

• April 2024 rate: £81.90 (from £76.75)

• Earnings threshold: £151.00 (from £139.00)

Disability Living Allowance

Care component

• Highest: £108.55 (from £101.75)

• Middle: £72.65 (from £68.10)

• Lowest: £28.70 (from £26.90)

Mobility component

• Higher: £75.75 (from £71.00)

• Lower: £28.70 (from £26.90)

Maternity Allowance

• Standard rate: £184.03 (from £172.48)

Pension Credit

Standard minimum guarantee

• Single: £218.15 (from £201.05)

• Couple: £332.95 (from £306.85)

Additional amount for severe disability

• Single: £81.50 (from £76.40)

• Couple (one qualifies): £81.50 (from £76.40)

• Couple (both qualify): £163.00 (from £152.80)

Additional amount for carers

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• £45.60 (from £42.75)

Savings credit

• Threshold, single: £189.80 (from £174.49)

• Threshold, couple: £301.22 (from £277.12)

• Maximum, single: £17.01 (from £15.94)

• Maximum, couple: £19.04 (from £17.84)

Children

• First child born before April 6, 2017: £76.79 (from £72.31)

• Subsequent children: £66.29 (from £61.88)

Disabled child

• Lower rate: £35.93 (from £33.67)

• Higher rate: £112.21 (from £104.86)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

Daily Living Component

• Enhanced: £108.55 (from £101.75)

• Standard: £72.65 (from £68.10)

Mobility Component

• Enhanced: £75.75 (from £71.00)

• Standard: £28.70 (from £26.90)

State Pension

New State Pension

• Full rate: £221.20 (from £203.85)

Old/Basic State Pension

• Category A or B Basic State Pension: £169.50 (from £156.20)

• Category B (lower) Basic State Pension - spouse or civil partner's insurance: £101.55 (from £93.60)

• Category C or D - non-contributory: £101.55 (from £93.60)