Tory ministers have refused to stop a £20-a-week Universal Credit cut this Autumn - because it would cost “billions more on benefits”.
DWP minister Will Quince today attacked Labour for asking for the lifeline for six million people to be extended beyond September 30.
He claimed “I certainly don’t recognise” that 4million children in poverty are “going to bed at night with no food in their tummy”.
And despite 37% of people on Universal Credit having a job, Mr Quince said the DWP would instead “shift its focus to supporting people back into work”.
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