Millions of Brit workers set for pay rise as National Living Wage to increase

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    Workers across the UK could be set for a huge pay rise.

    Millions of Brits could be eligible for a salary increase. Currently the National Living Wage is £10.42 an hour, but it's set to rise.

    It's believed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will confirm a money increase to at least £11 an hour, reports BBC. The new amount would come into place next April.

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    It's said Mr Hunt would confirm the news in a speech at the Conservative Party conference on Monday (October 2) in Manchester.

    It is estimated increasing the National Living Wage could benefit 2million of the lowest-paid workers in Britain. Mr Hunt also plans to toughen sanctions for those on benefits who do not attempt to find themselves work.

    The Tories said an increase to £11 an hour would mean the annual earnings of someone who works full-time would go up by £1,000 annually.

    BBC reports Mr Hunt is expected to say in the conference: "Since we introduced [the National Living Wage], nearly 2m people have been lifted from absolute poverty.

    "That's the Conservative way of improving the lives of working people. Boosting pay, cutting tax."

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    The Chancellor is also said to announce ministers are going to again look at the benefit sanctions regime.

    A benefit sanction tends to be imposed "if a claimant is deemed not to have complied with a work-related condition for receiving the benefit in question".

    The chancellor is set to say: "Since the pandemic, things have being going in the wrong direction. While companies struggle to find workers, around 100,000 people are leaving the labour force every year for a life on benefits."

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