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A QUARTER of people will not recover financially from the Covid-19 crisis for at least another year, national poverty charity Turn2Us has warned.
People who have lost income and incurred debts since March 2020 will need an average of 17 months to get their finances back to pre-pandemic levels, according to the charity.
The time needed for people to recover is “clear evidence” that the government should not pull away support schemes too quickly and that it has a clear moral obligation to make permanent the £20 uplift to universal credit (UC), Turn2Us says.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
