Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing One hundred organisations have urged the Prime Minister to drop the looming £20 cut to Universal Credit (UC) and Working Tax Credit.
Signing a letter calling for a halt to the payment reduction, they've described it as “the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since World War II”.
Axing the £20-a-week uplift, which was introduced temporarily to help claimants weather the storm of the coronavirus pandemic, risks causing “immense, immediate and avoidable hardship”, they say. READ MORE: Tesco issues payment warning to thousands of Clubcard holders The Government plans to start phasing out the increase from the end of September, based on
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