THE GUARDIAN: PM reneging on Conservative promise to increase benefits in line with inflation ‘morally indefensible’, say experts
Liz Truss will deliver the biggest permanent real-terms cut to the basic rate of benefits ever made if she fails to raise them in line with inflation, one of the UK’s leading poverty charities has said.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) urged the government not to renege on its promise, made earlier this year, to raise universal credit and other working age benefits in line with inflation. It said such a move would be a “harmful act of historic proportions” – and deliver a devastating blow to millions of families on low incomes.
The JRF’s intervention follows widespread outrage at suggestions that the Treasury will seek to strip billions of pounds from the welfare budget to help repair shattered government finances after its disastrous mini-budget last week, which announced generous tax breaks for the rich but caused a near financial crisis. » | Patrick Butler Social policy editor| Friday, September 30, 2022
If this heartless woman reneges on Tory promises, she will be nothing less than evil. Very many struggling families rely on those benefits just to survive. This is an outrage. – © Mark Alexander
