Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The withdrawal of the £20-per week Universal Credit uplift will see many families in Bury facing the choice between ‘heating or eating’, councillors have heard.
Bury full council debated a motion put forward by the council’s Labour group to ‘stop the cut to Universal Credit’. which would affect 15,300 people in the borough, many of whom are in work.
The motion proposed that the authority write to the Prime Minister and Chancellor calling on them to stop the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit and called on Bury’s two MPs to oppose the cut and vote against it in Parliament. READ MORE: GMP accused of ‘blanking’ Rochdale grooming victims seeking justice The
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