The former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith
has warned the chancellor that he risks undermining the whole purpose of
welfare reform if he fails to reverse cuts to universal credit (UC) in his
spring statement. Philip Hammond is under mounting pressure from across the
party to use better than expected tax revenues to reverse cuts made after the
2015 election. Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that 340,000
people could be taken out of poverty by reversing the cuts to work allowances.
Read more on the Guardian website.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/13/reverse-universal-credit-cuts-iain-duncan-smith-tells-chancellor
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