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Disadvantaged: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department plans to take to support people to (a) build financial resilience and (b) manage debt.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
28 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department plans to take to support people to (a) build financial resilience and (b) manage debt.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to helping people build their financial resilience. At Autumn Budget 2024, we announced an extension to the Help to Save Scheme which aims to bolster the financial resilience of low-income households by providing a 50% bonus on...

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