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'Vital' Universal Credit payment increase should be kept beyond April 2021, says SNP MP
UK Goverment has been called on to maintain a £20 increase to Universal Credit payments introduced during the height of lockdown instead of scrapping it next year as planned.Neil Gray, the SNP's work and pensions spokesman, said the meagre rise had provided a "vital" lifeline for struggling families during the coronavirus pandemic.In an opinion piece for the Record, the MP for Airdrie and Shotts insisted there was still for the UK Government "to do what is right" and maintain the increase.A report by leading anti-poverty charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has previously called for the rise to be made permanent and extended to legacy benefits to strengthen the social security net.It follows repeated calls from the Nationalists for