Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit payments ‘must be extended for at least a year’ to prevent hundreds of thousands of families falling into poverty, MPs have warned.The temporary uplift was introduced at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and is in place until the end of March.However, the UK Government is under mounting pressure to extend the additional financial support, but has not yet said whether it will do so.A new report from the Work and Pensions Committee strongly advises that the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, “must maintain it for another year at the very least”, if the UK Government does not intend to make it permanent.The report also notes that since March the number of people claiming Universal Credit has doubled to around.
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