Benefits to rise 1.7% with inflation in first increase in five years

Rise in working-age benefits ‘won’t offset impact of austerity on low-income families’Households squeezed by the government’s benefits freeze are set to receive the first cash increase in payments in five years, despite the austerity policy costing lower-income families £580 each year since 2015.According to the Resolution Foundation, working-age benefits – including child benefit, universal credit, non-disability tax credits and jobseeker’s allowance &n