Unemployment benefits in UK are the lowest in north west Europe
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dailyrecord.co.ukiOS - Android When compared to small countries similar in size to Scotland, this rises to 19 percentage points.Even with the uplift to Universal Credit, which the Chancellor has said will end, a single person in the UK receives less than a fifth of the average unemployment benefits provided by other European countries.Ms Adamson, the MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, said: “The UK already has the lowest state pension in the developed world."And now this new analysis shows that the UK Government is leaving unemployed people high and dry compared to our neighbours.“The Tories have presided over a sustained assault on those on low incomes and I fear the worst is yet to come.
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