Thérèse Coffey claimed £200,000 on expenses while cutting your benefits
The work and pensions secretary suggested that those set to lose out from the UC cut should work more hours.
The work and pensions secretary suggested that those set to lose out from the UC cut should work more hours.
'This is what class conflict looks like.'
Ministers are pushing ahead with scrapping the £20-a-week UC uplift at the end of September.
From the newsletter: Westminster's new battle-lines have been drawn - and they look awfully familiar.
“Imposing what is effectively the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since World War II will pile unnecessary financial pressure on around 5.5 million families, both in and out of work.”
The £20-a-week increase, introduced during the coronavirus pandemic, is due to end this month.
A cut to Universal Credit this autumn will be a hammer blow to millions of people- here's why.
The chancellor has defied MPs to cut six million people’s Universal Credit allowance by £20 a week.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that in 413 constituencies at least a third of working-age families with children will be hit.
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