Almost half of all Scottish households on Universal Credit are being hit by a staggering £10 million a month “poverty tax” of DWP deductions from their benefits.
In one month alone last year 180,000 households in Scotland had an average of £60 deducted from their social security payments, according to official figures.
The massive sum, from November 2021, was mainly to pay back the loans issued by the Department of Work and Pensions to cover the five-week waiting period at the beginning of a new UC claim.
