As part of the Government's response to the COVID crisis in March, the main benefit payments were increased by $25 per week. This bill proposes to retrospectively adjust the minimum family tax credit threshold as a result of those changes. The adjustment results in a $32 per week increase during the 2020-2021 tax year for recipients of the minimum family tax credit. We expect that approximately 3,600 families will benefit from this, by an average of $1,626. The effect of this can be received weekly by people from December, but at the end of the year they, effectively, get it backdated in their wash-up payments at the end of the year back to 1 April, which is when the benefit increase occurred. Making this change now allows Inland Revenue to begin paying that higher tax credit, as I've said, from later this month. 