The BBC spoke to people with a range of earnings and household set-ups about how the Budget affects them.
But in Wednesday's Budget, the chancellor raised the income level at which people have to start paying back part of the benefit from £50,000 to £60,000, and the level at which it is withdrawn completely from £60,000 to £80,000.
"We could claim again and then potentially keep up to 50% of the benefit for the next couple of years, which seems positive," he says.But he has always thought the way the underlying system works is unfair. Joe Makin, 23, earns £22,000 a year working in admin and says almost two-thirds of his take-home pay is eaten up by rent and bills.
But he says: "These are small things that scratch the surface of what could be good, but as usual it never tends to go far enough for me. I was waiting for him to say 'and...' but the 'and...' never came. Aga Szedzianis says she has felt the impact of tax thresholds not going up with inflation in recent years
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