11 things wrong with the Tories’ cut to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits
The government’s arguments fall apart quite quickly when you scratch the surface.
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.
Universal Credit is unfairly hitting young parents in the pocket.
‘I know how dehumanising it is to be treated like you’re faking your disability,’ says Rachel Charlton-Dailey.
400,000 renting households have either been served an eviction notice or have been told they will be evicted, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
A survey of 1,647 respondents in the UK found that more than half adults wanted higher benefits for disabled people, carers and lone parents.
Poverty and destitution are not the outcome of some invisible hand of fate, but the that of government policies and unresponsive economic and political institutions.
The campaigners are saying that ‘millions’ will be face being plunged into even greater hardship next year.
An influential committee has condemned the department’s total lack of proper processes when it comes to welfare claimants taking their own lives.
Freedom of Information response claims department has no analysis of payment delays, despite a 2019 admission by the then secretary of state.