‘We are already cracking down on those who try to exploit the welfare system in a push to save the taxpayer £1.3bn in the next year.’
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The Sun says THOUSANDS on Universal Credit will miss out on the £650 cost of living payment due to a loophole in the rules.
The Sun says MILLIONS of families and pensioners will get a pay rise from today as benefit rates go up.
The Guardian says research has found the number claiming universal credit has more than doubled since the start of the pandemic to at least 2.3 million.
The Sun says BORIS Johnson hailed working Brits getting to keep more of their own money as the Universal Credit cash hits bank accounts from TODAY.
The Sun says HALF a million will see their Universal Credit boosted by £1,000 from tomorrow – in a win for our Sun campaign.
The Daily Express says SINGLE mum Fausia said she “really struggled” after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had withheld a month’s worth of her Universal Credit payments.
The Sun says HUNDREDS of thousands more Brits will be entitled to Universal Credit amid a massive expansion of the welfare state’s reach.
The Daily Mirror says more than £500 million will be cut from the incomes of people across dozens of ‘red wall’ seats as a result of brutal Tory universal credit cuts.
The Daily Mirror says a grandmother is being forced to sell her treasured Princess Diana memorabilia just to pay the bills thanks to the Tories’ cut to Universal Credit.
The Independent says a partial climbdown on the looming cut to universal credit is being considered by ministers
The Daily Mirror says a million and a half working people face being plunged into “hardship” this winter as their benefits are slashed by £20 a week, a charity warns today.
The Independent says Boris Johnson has avoided a potentially humiliating Commons showdown on cuts to universal credit
Footballer and poverty campaigner says ministers should focus on efforts to end the ‘child hunger pandemic’ and keep the £20…
Therese Coffey has told MPs the £20-a-week top-up to universal credit will be “phased out” in the autumn.
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