If you enter work, you lose 63p of benefit for every £1 you earn. This acts like a hefty tax on the poor.
The idea is reportedly being considered as an alternative simply to continuing or ending the Universal Credit uplift in April.
Labour would abolish Universal Credit, which has coped well with the unprecedented pressures of this unprecedented last year.
The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
It’s baffling why think-tanks are taking the OBR assessments as truth, given its prediction record.
The fourth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
The first in a mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on Covid-19 – and helping those in deep poverty.
We need a long-term poverty strategy and a Social Justice Cabinet Committee. And here’s a Christmas holiday plan for childrens’ food.
The recent debate on free school meals has shown, among many things, the impact of local civil society non-state organisations.
We are allowing others to create a narrative for us, and in the absence of an agreed poverty measure and subsequent strategy, we always will.
Ministers could not have handled the matter worse if they’d tried. But Paul Maynard, pictured, is championing a solution.
They’re facing mass unemployment and freezes on their wages. The Government must do its utmost to change the situation.
And when it comes to paying for the crisis measures, as we must, taxes must not fall on younger workers.
We found over a million people excluded from the Government schemes are struggling to pay for food and everyday essentials.