Welfare expert warns Tory plans to cut universal credit is "not the right thing to do"

Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:19

The SNP has repeated calls for the UK government to maintain the £20 boost to Universal Credit and extend it to legacy benefits after a welfare expert warned that ending it in March would be "too punitive a policy right now" and it is “not the right thing to do.” Dame Louise Casey, a former homelessness adviser to the UK government, has repeatedly echoed the SNP’s calls to strengthen welfare protections and previously warned that the UK faces a "period of destitution"...Request free trial