Punishing children to ‘encourage’ parents is wrong and all politicians should reject any policy that’s proven to impoverish families
Universal credit
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Speakers talk of the devastation caused by Conservative attacks on benefits and the most vulnerable in society
The chancellor should use tomorrow’s spring statement to scrap the rules that penalise low-income families applying for universal credit and tax credits, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Any parents currently applying for universal credit only get help for the first two children, if their younger sons or daughters were born on or after 6 April 2017. […]
It’s difficult to see how Universal Credit can continue to deliver anything but misery for many. It’s difficult to see how any government – even this one – can justify ploughing on regardless in the face of such overwhelming evidence. The government needs to end the five week wait – but they also need to think again about Universal Credit, full stop, before any more damage is done.
Universal Credit needs to be halted before more people suffer and lose out.
UNISON welcomes government’s decision not to extend the two-child limit
It’s difficult to see how Universal Credit can deliver anything but misery. It’s difficult to see how any government – even this one – can justify ploughing on regardless in the face of such overwhelming evidence.
Low-paid working couples who receive benefits and whose children have left home will be denied a pay boost by the Chancellor, UNISON said today (Wednesday). Childless people on universal credit will be losers too despite the increase announced in yesterday’s Budget to the work allowance – the monthly amount employees can keep before their benefits […]
The government must reverse its cuts to universal credit so that workers are allowed to keep more of the money they earn every month, says UNISON today (Thursday). Millions of workers on the minimum wage will only see a fraction of any increase, says the union, unless their monthly work allowance goes up too. This […]
UNISON welcomes assurances that ‘in work conditionality’ will be put on pause
People are suddenly finding that their Universal Credit payments either stop completely or fall dramatically simply because of the way they are paid. What’s more they can lose hundreds of pounds.
Dave Prentis comments on a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) into Universal Credit failings.
UNISON backs Children’s Society campaign against changes to free school meal eligibility in England which could stop up to one million children qualifying