Welfare measures

• Contributory Employment and Support Allowance: time limit for those in the
• Work Related Activity Group to one year
• Housing Benefit: increase age limit for shared room rate from 25 to 35
• Total household benefit payments capped on the basis of average take-home pay
• for working households
• Disability Living Allowance: remove mobility component for claimants in
• residential care
• Savings Credit: freeze maximum award for four years from 2011-12
• Support for Mortgage Interest: extend temporary changes to waiting period and
• capital limit until January 2012
• Cold Weather Payments: increase rate permanently to £25 from November 2010
• Council Tax Benefit:10% reduction in expenditure and localisation
• Working Tax Credit: freeze in the basic and 30 hour elements for three years from
• 2011-12
• Working Tax Credit: reduce payable costs through childcare element from 80% to
• 70% restoring 2006 rate
• Child Tax Credit: increase the child element by £30 in 2011 and £50 in 2012
• Working Tax Credit: increase working hours requirement for couples with children
• to 24 hours
• Child and Working Tax Credits: use real time information

Other AME policy

• Public sector pensions:increase in employee contribution rates Renewable Heat Incentive: efficiency savings
• Carbon Reduction Commitment: no recycling of revenues Royal Mint: reduction in metal cost for coinage
• Equitable life payments
• Capitalisation: support for local authority restructuring
• Public Works Loan Board: interest rate increase
• TfL Metronet: replace borrowing with central government grant
• Right to Buy: surrender full receipts to Exchequer receipts
• Housing Revenue Account System: reform
• Northern Ireland Reinvestment and Reform Initiative Child Benefit: remove from families with a higher rate taxpayer from January 2013

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