poverty told MPs on the Commons Scottish Affairs committee that families will suffer if the temporary increase is scrapped in March.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure to maintain the £20 a week uplift in the benefit introduced as the coronavirus pandemic hit Britain last year.MPs also heard cals for the £10 per week Scottish Child Payment being introduced from next month to be doubled as part of the effort to tackle child poverty.Kirsty McKechnie, of the Child Poverty Action Group Scotland said that in addition to maintaining Universal Credit the new Scottish Child Payment benefit, administered by the Scottish government, ought to be doubled.She said: “We know that if the £20 a week uplift is removed at the end of March, a.
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