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A third of Scottish families with children worse off when Universal Credit cut bites

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UC and Working Tax credit introduced in lockdown will affect 63 per cent of families with kids in one Glasgow constituency. This impact will be felt by 37 per cent of families with children all across Scotland, according to the research by the respected poverty campaign organisation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

In 52 of the 59 Westminster constituencies, over a quarter of working-age families with children will be impacted by the cut, which will strip money from families’ pockets and local economies.

Hardest hit will be Glasgow which contains the three constituencies in which over half of all families with children will be impacted.In Glasgow Central a massive 63 per cent of families will be affected.

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