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17-Feb-21, 16:10
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:

Who Loses? - The Impacts Of Planned Universal Credit Cuts Across Society



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Failure to maintain the £20 a week Covid top-up payment for universal credit by the Government will overwhelmingly hit the incomes of working and disabled people, and put more than 700,000 into poverty, according to a study by the Fabian Society. Government they will decide in early March whether to keep or scrap the temporary 12-month Covid payment - giving claimants just a month to plan for what could be a £1,050 a year cut in benefits. [Read Full Article (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/13306)]