poverty rate than the average for independent countries of Scotland’s size and has had the worst or second-worst poverty rate in every single year since UK data was first recorded in 2002.
The data was revealed as the as Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed the Tory government plans to slash Universal Credit payments for six million families by £1040 a year from September.The move has been described as “catastrophic” by the Children’s Commissioner for Scotland, who has warned the cuts would “effectively knock out the benefits that the Scottish Child Payment brings”.
David Linden MP, the SNP Work and Pensions spokesman, demanded an urgent U-turn from the chancellor but with little expectation of a hearing.
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