A debt specialist has said the government’s Budget did not go far enough to help struggling households.
The chancellor announced a 2p cut in National Insurance, an increase in the threshold for child benefits payments and an extension to a government fund to help people with cost of living pressures, among other measures.
Dan Bebbington from the Wrekin Housing Group in Shropshire said the National Insurance move would not help those on the lowest incomes.
He said the government would have helped more people if it had raised the income tax thresholds.
Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, said in his Budget speech the National Insurance cut, to begin next month, is worth 450 a year for the…
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