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DWP dismisses call to introduce new £20 weekly uplift on all legacy benefits and Universal Credit

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dismissed calls from Labour MP Steve McCabe to introduce a new £20 weekly uplift for all legacy benefit claimants and people on Universal Credit to help them through the cost of living crisis.

People on Universal Credit received a £20 weekly increase from the DWP from April 2020 to October 2021 to help them pay for additional costs incurred during the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.

However, the uplift was not extended to more than two million people on legacy benefits such as Employment Support Allowance (ESA), Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA).

Four claimants brought a challenge to the High Court in November 2021 in relation to the UK Government's failure to apply a similar increase to legacy benefits, which was rejected by the judge in February this year.

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