Submitted on Monday 16th August 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 18th August 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Keep the uplift of £20 to Universal Credit.
I want the Government to keep the £20 uplift to Universal Credit and not to cut the £20 as it has said it plans.
Before the pandemic, the main rate of out-of-work support was at its lowest level in real terms since around 1990 and its lowest ever as a proportion of average wages.
It is widely accepted (including by those who were in Government at that time) that the incomes of the lowest-income families had been squeezed too much.
The six previous Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions warn against the cut. The present DWP has no, 'robust estimate' of the likely effect of the cut on child poverty.
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Make the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit permanent:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/593104
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