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Work allowance This is the amount recipients of the universal credit can earn before their benefits start to be taken away, and Hammond continued with Osborne's already-announced cuts.
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said households affected by work allowance changes would get help from jobcentre work coaches to increase their hours and earnings.
A separate work allowance for second earners under universal credit.
Freezing the work allowance will harm work incentives and hit low paid families hard.
That compares to losses of up to £2,800 a year from the work allowance changes.
Cuts to the work allowance under universal credit must be reversed.
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"We are simplifying the work allowances under UC and giving people extra help to progress in work.
The work allowances cut will hit the majority of 80,000 UK households currently in work and on universal credit.
The changes are occurring because universal credit work allowances will now be kept at their current levels for three years, from April 2014.
The most effective way to support families would be by reversing the £3bn cut to work allowances announced by the last chancellor.
The freezing of the work allowances in universal credit disproportionately affects households in employment and in the bottom half of the income distribution.
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