In April 2020, the government increased Universal Credit by £20 per week as a part of a range of Covid-19 support measures.
However, this uplift will finish at the end of March unless the Chancellor Rishi Sunak agrees to an extension in the budget. This top-up must be made permanent and extended to a range of other benefits to avoid pushing 400,000 extra children into poverty.
My own analysis - Covid-19 and the temporary transformation of the UK social security system -highlights the severity of benefit cuts over the last decade and the Covid-19 bonus was an acknowledgment that means tested benefits were too low for families to survive on during the pandemic.
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