‘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.’
The government’s arguments fall apart quite quickly when you scratch the surface.
‘To give people enough relief to offset their problems, even just a little bit, and then to take it away, feels cruel,’ says one victim of the cuts.
Millions are set to lose £1,000 a year, new government data shows.
“There is now nearly two years’ extra weight of evidence that the delay in providing a first payment is causing real hardship.”
In six months time, six million people will lose out on £20 a week.
Paying it to individuals not households would benefit everyone. UBI would be better still.
We are still in the midst of the worst health and economic crisis that impact those on the lowest incomes hardest.
