However, he also cut the personal income tax allowance pensioners receive, reduced child benefit and raised taxes on tobacco and other items.
The improvement to pensioners' incomes results from increased age-related income tax allowances, increased income support, winter fuel allowances and retention of the Married Couple's Allowance for those born before 6 April 1935.
During the 1970s a number of countries decided to abolish income tax allowances for children and make a corresponding increase in the level of their family allowances.
Here are the key points: THE KEY POINTS: Replaces working tax credit, child tax credit, housing benefit, income support, jobseekers' allowance and income related allowances.
The benefits that are linked in this way are jobseeker's allowance, income support, most income tax allowances, national insurance thresholds, inheritance tax allowance, disability benefits, maternity benefits, incapacity benefit and child benefit.
Mr Johnson praised the "consistency" in increases to personal income tax allowances, and reductions in corporation tax, but criticised "chopping and changing" in business policies like investment allowances.
They also deferred pension adjustments by two months and introduced income tested family allowances for 17 and 18-year-olds, substantially reduced foreign aid and most contentiously of all for the Labor Party, removed the ban on uranium exports to France.
However, once a student's total income exceeds his Income Protection Allowance, any additional income can reduce aid by as much as 50 cents on the dollar.
The airlines might comply by reducing baggage allowances.
Most are dependent on welfare payments like income support, child allowances or married student stipends.
Total monthly average income includes social allowances.
