CHILDLESS couples in receipt of benefits or those whose children have left home will be denied a pay boost as a result of the Budget, analysis revealed today.

Under the universal credit scheme, parents of dependent children and people with disabilities will benefit from the new increase to the work allowance, the monthly amount that employees can earn before their benefits are affected.

Unison, which carried out the research, attacked the “underhand” decision to not increase the threshold for working couples without dependent children.