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Rishi Sunak told to 'think again' on Universal Credit cut as Tory chancellor visits Scotland

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Universal Credit. As the Tory chancellor arrives north of the Border today, he was sent a cross-party message from politicians and campaigners that he is endangering trust in the UK Government by plunging thousands of Scottish children into poverty.

The Conservative plan to reverse the £20 a week increase to Universal Credit brought in during lockdown in a move that will plunge 22,000 children into poverty in Scotland alone.

The campaigning Joseph Rowntree Foundation calculated the move will leave half a million low-income families in Scotland - one in five of working families - £1,000-a-year worse off.Almost 40 per cent of UC claimants in Scotland, about 176,000 people, are also in work - but do not bring home enough money to stay afloat,.

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