We've used real life experiences to show how #UniversalCredit and #LHA are pushing people towards hardship and poverty.
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This creates a shortfall between people’s rent and what they get in housing allowance; 65% of households have a shortfall. #FromTheFrontline
This means they are having to make decisions no family should have to make – such as whether to cut back on food or heating to pay the rent. #FromTheFrontline
...but are also unable to find a suitable property where there isn’t an unsustainable shortfall. #FromTheFrontline
The five-week wait is pushing people further into poverty, leaving them without income and potentially into rent arrears. ⏳
#FromTheFrontline
Many of our service users, after high deductions, see their income slashed to as low as £100 or less for the whole month. #FromTheFrontline
Support @crisis_uk's #CoverTheCost campaign calling on the government to raise #LHA to cover rents: crisis.org.uk/get-involved/c…
Our friends at @TrussellTrust are running their own #5WeeksTooLong campaign, which you can support here: trusselltrust.org/five-weeks-too…
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