A petition calling on the government to take urgent action to support the introduction of an Essentials Guarantee was presented to political parties in Westminster this week.
Over half of Universal Credit recipients ran out of food last month and couldn’t afford more
‘Anything short of raising all benefits in line with inflation will blight millions more childhoods and weaken our future economy.’
‘The deductions policy is acting as a recruiting sergeant for food banks.’
As the cost-of-living crisis deepens, charities warn that without government intervention, millions could be pushed into poverty and destitution.
“It’s a good news story that low paid workers will see a decent pay increase, but it’s quite a separate question to a universal credit cut and in no way should be seen as a compensation for it”
“It’s all just a big laugh to them. They have no idea what losing over £20 a week is doing to families in Kent and across England.”
‘I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.’
A backbench rebellion over fallout over plans to scrap benefit payment uplift has been rejected, saving Johnson from a potentially humiliating Commons’ showdown
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’
