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A CROSS-PARTY group of MPs is putting pressure on ministers to extend the £20-a-week “uplift” to all households claiming benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic.
MPs will be voting in the Commons tomorrow on whether to axe the £20-a-week boost to universal credit.
The all-party parliamentary group on poverty has called for the uplift to be extended past April and broadened, so that two million people on so-called legacy benefits can also receive it, as well as for the cap on benefits to be suspended.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
