{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/24565.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":24565,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Benefit increases should not outstrip pay increases","background":null,"additional_details":"The Chancellor's Autumn Budget Statement has announced that public sector pay will only go up by 1% per year for 2 years when current pay freezes expire in either 2012 and 2013, but that core benefits payments will go up by 5.2% in 2012/13. In a time of austerity everyone should share the burden of necessary public spending restraint to bring down the deficit. This petition asks that the Government keep benefit increases capped to the 1% yearly increases in 2012-2015 that public sector workers are facing.It also asks that any savings are used to increase the personal income tax allowance, taking more people out of tax, benefiting the after-tax incomes of all workers and increasing the incentive to work.\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2011-11-30T08:25:19.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:27:40.084Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:36:53.586Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2011-11-30T08:25:19.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}