{"id":11427,"date":"2022-09-29T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/09\/29\/chancellor-kwarteng-on-rises-for-benefits-and-pensions-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:03:39","slug":"chancellor-kwarteng-on-rises-for-benefits-and-pensions-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=11427","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor Kwarteng on rises for benefits and pensions in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The mini-budget was &#8220;absolutely essential&#8221; in resetting the debate about growth, Kwasi Kwarteng has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The chancellor added it was &#8220;premature&#8221; to say whether the government would keep a previous pledge that would see benefits rise in April 2023 at the rate of today&#8217;s inflation rate of 10%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But he said the prime minister was &#8220;absolutely committed&#8221; to keeping the triple-lock on pension rises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/business-63069137\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">LIVE: We&#8217;re sticking to our growth plan, says Kwarteng<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63075361?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The mini-budget was &#8220;absolutely essential&#8221; in resetting the debate about growth, Kwasi Kwarteng has said. The chancellor added it was &#8220;premature&#8221; to say whether the government would keep a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}