April marks the beginning of a new financial year, and with that a raft of measures that the Labour government is taking to help working families with the cost of living come into effect.
These include:
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Removing the two-child limit, which is expected to lift 450,000 children out of poverty, making sure that all children have the best start in life
💼 Introducing Statutory Sick Pay, paternity and unpaid parental leave rights from day one, as key measures in Labour’s Employment Rights Act come into force
🤕 Freezing prescription charges for the second year in a row, keeping essential medicines affordable for millions
🚆Freezing rail fares for the first time in 30 years, benefitting more than a billion passenger journeys across England
💷 Providing a pay boost for 2.7 million workers as both the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage increase by 4% – a rise worth £900 a year
⚡️Energy Bill Support, with an average £117 reduction on household energy bills, applied to all households on top of the £150 Warm Homes Discount for millions of low income households.
📈 Uprating inflation-linked benefits by 3.8%, alongside a State Pension uplift of 4.8%
🏠 Launching the Crisis and Resilience Fund, a new £1 billion per year fund covering cash-first crisis payments and housing payments to assist people when faced with a financial crisis.
Read more here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/help-with-the-cost-of-living-in-2026
