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					Originally Posted by Damien  He is referring to the Tories freezing other benefits over the last decade. Working age benefits, child tax credits and so on have been reduced/frozen for a long time now. As well as making it harder for people to claim disability benefits. | 
	
 Benefits went up by the rate of inflation, as they always have done. It was the salaries of Ministers that were frozen.