🧵The social security system should support us all when we face challenging times, but right now it’s not covering the essentials and pushing some people into even deeper hardship.
What’s gone wrong and what can be done about it?
#OurEssentials
What’s gone wrong and what can be done about it?
#OurEssentials
Firstly, #UniversalCredit isn’t set according to any objective assessment of the price of essentials such as food and utilities. From April it will only be £85 a week for a single adult.
Often people receive even less than that, as they face deductions from their support which are taken at unaffordable rates, for example to pay off debts to the Government.
Our research shows that we must increase the basic rate of #UniversalCredit to at least £120 a week to address the significant gap that now exists between the level of support people receive and their living costs.
We estimate that making this change would lift 1.8 million people out of poverty, including 600,000 children.
Find out more about our research and why it’s time for the Government to guarantee #OurEssentials jrf.org.uk/report/guarant…
Find out more about our research and why it’s time for the Government to guarantee #OurEssentials jrf.org.uk/report/guarant…
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