I desperately want to see an end to Universal Credit. Last month I sat with a church member facing threats of eviction from her landlord. Like many people at the moment, work has dried up and she has no income coming in. Her application for Universal Credit has been denied repeatedly. She will get UC – she will win at appeal in a few months’ time, and then if she is lucky she will wait a further 5 weeks for her first payment. However, she needs to eat before then and eviction proceedings across England are restarting in a […]
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