1⃣In exactly one month from now the planned cut to #UniversalCredit will take £20 a week from the already precarious incomes of millions of families.
Here’s a rundown of just some of the reasons why the cut must not go ahead 👇
Here’s a rundown of just some of the reasons why the cut must not go ahead 👇
✂️It would be the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since WWII
📉It risks repeating the same mistakes made after the last economic crisis where our country’s recovery was too often not felt by people on the lowest incomes
📉It risks repeating the same mistakes made after the last economic crisis where our country’s recovery was too often not felt by people on the lowest incomes
💷It would put unnecessary financial pressure on around 5.5 million families, in and out of work
👨👦It risks pulling 500,000 people into poverty, including 200,000 children
👨👦It risks pulling 500,000 people into poverty, including 200,000 children
🔷Six former Conservative Work & Pensions Secretaries oppose this cut, as do a growing number of MPs across the political spectrum
✍️100 organisations across the UK have joined together and written to the Government urging them not to go ahead with the cut
✍️100 organisations across the UK have joined together and written to the Government urging them not to go ahead with the cut
🤝We all want a social security system that supports families to escape poverty rather than pulling them deeper into it.
If you agree, write to your MP and tell them to #KeepTheLifeline
jrf.org.uk/support-keep-t…
If you agree, write to your MP and tell them to #KeepTheLifeline
jrf.org.uk/support-keep-t…
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