A year and a half later, people are still struggling to find reliable work and coronavirus continues to rage, but this lifeline – along with a host of others - is ripped away and claimants are left with £80-a-month less in their pockets; with thousands of young people losing a quarter of their income overnight.
This week marks a year since that £20 a week was cut from Universal Credit.
We are facing a crisis similar in scale to the pandemic but, instead of debating whether temporarily increasing Universal Credit would help, the talk in Westminster this week has been about whether it should face a real terms cut.
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