North Lanarkshire Council’s leader says the recent reduction in universal credit “will result in more people living in poverty” in the area – and says a ministerial response to his letter on the issue was “very disappointing”.
Jim Logue wrote to the UK government last month about the impact of removing the £20 per week uplift which had first been put in place early in the COVID pandemic and asking for it to be reconsidered.
Fellow Lanarkshire politicians including MSPs Neil Gray and Richard Leonard, as well as MPs Anum Qaisar-Javed and Steven Bonnar, have also criticised the reduction to the benefit, which took effect last month.
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