Teachers claiming in-work support could lose out following benefit changes

A single parent-of-two claiming in-work support and working full-time as a teacher could be over £3,700 worse off a year in 2018-19, research shows.

This is compared with 2011-12, Tes has reported.

The research conducted by the House of Commons Library shows that workers in the public and private sector are experiencing stagnating wages and a reduction of in-work benefits.

It shows that a single parent to two who works full-time as a teacher and is a new claimant to universal credit will be nearly £4,000 worse off in 2018-19.

Universal credit brings a number of welfare payments together into one social security payment in order to make the system easier to use. However, it has had a number of changes since 2013 including cuts to work allowances and a four-year freeze on rates paid to claimants.

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