direct to your inboxThe Universal Credit system will change again in 2021, the Department for Work and Pensions announced.
It follows a year in which payments were boosted due to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Birmingham Live reports.The benefits freeze ended in April 2020 after being in place since 2016.It meant benefit levels had not risen in line with inflation for at least four years.Figures suggest that people on Universal Credit and the benefits it is replacing could have lost as much as £1,800 a year while the cuts were in place.Because of the impact of the coronavirus crisis, Universal Credit was given an additional boost of £1,040 a year (around £20 a week or £80 a month).A similar coronavirus boost was given to.
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