Then MPs turn to a series of orders uprating social security benefits and amending pensions regulations.
But the change in uprating for the next few years is a reform which asks most working age households to contribute, regardless of circumstance.
According to the IFS, about 9.5 million households will be affected by the new policy on uprating - or about half of the working age households in Britain.
The government now intends to use CPI for the uprating of state pensions, state benefits and also for the inflation-related increases built into the big public sector pension schemes.
If the forecasters are right in their predictions for inflation over the next few years, today's uprating move will mean that the benefits fall by 4% in real terms between 2013 and 2015.
As I pointed out a while ago, one consequence of uprating benefits with inflation at a time of flat or falling real wages has been to help narrow the gap between rich and poor.
Tax credits - including child tax credit and working tax credit - will be uprated by 1% for three years from April 2013, apart from the basic and 30-hour elements where the uprating will not apply until 2014.
Some members of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) have spent the past year or so campaigning against the decision of their scheme trustees to move from RPI to CPI for pension uprating, in the wake of the public sector changes.
The task is to make the minimum wage "part of the furniture" in the UK. The Low Pay Commission should consider when it would be right to recommend an uprating in the minimum wage to ensure that it retains its value.
For most MPs, it was the first week they could remember without any whipped votes - and even when there was a vote, on Thursday, over the issue of uprating pensions by the CPI rather than the RPI, only 265 out of 650 MPs turned out.
Separate reforms to force millions of public sector workers to pay an additional 3.2% of salaries towards their pensions and to switch the uprating of pensions from RPI inflation to the normally lower CPI measure of inflation are expected to significantly reduce the long-term cost of public-sector pensions.
On Monday , MPs convene at 2.30pm for an hour of Education questions, and, assuming no ministerial statements or urgent questions - and an update on the Algerian hostage crisis must be likely - they then turn to the committee of the whole house and third reading of the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill.
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