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Rishi Sunak accused of presiding over “widening inequality in UK”
She calls on Sunak to reverse the £20 cut to universal credit, describing it as “a real lifeline over the past 18 months”, the removal of which has left “a real hole in people’s pockets”.Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Bridget Phillipson, has said that the government’s National Living Wage offer is “distinctly underwhelming.
National living wage to rise from £8.91 per hour to £9.50 - affecting those aged 23 and over from 1 April£700m to be spent mainly on the new post-Brexit borders and immigration system, as well as a new maritime patrol fleetBritain's Home Secretary Priti Patel has arrived in Downing Street for the cabinet meeting in central London, before the government's annual budget announcement.
If your circumstances mean that you don’t have a Work Allowance, your Universal Credit payment will be reduced by 63p for every £1 you earn.effectively taxes Brits 63p in the pound on anything they earn over their base level of benefits - which puts many thousands off applying for better paid jobs or taking on more hours.
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