Reformer : “It is critical that the UK Government heeds our calls ahead of their Budget – not only should they make the £20 uplift to Universal Credit permanent, they must extend it to legacy benefits. “If the Chancellor or Prime Minister won’t listen to the SNP and the countless anti-poverty campaigners then they must listen to one of their former advisers, Dame Louise Casey, who has said that scrapping the uplift in the middle of a global pandemic and economic crisis is ‘unthinkable’.“These Tory plans would devastate families across Rutherglen and Cambuslang – slashing £1,000-a-year from almost 30,000 South Lanarkshire families.”Official statistics on poverty, wealth, debt and savings consistently find that single parent families.
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