Minimum wage and the national living wage will rise in April next year, the chancellor has confirmed ahead of the Budget.
Rachel Reeves said she is making the changes because the "cost of living is still the number one issue" for working Britons and "too many people are still struggling to make ends meet".
The national living wage, the minimum an employer must pay staff aged 21 and over, will rise by 4.1% – from £12.21 to £12.71 an hour.
This would amount to an extra £900 a year for around 2.4 million full-time workers.
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