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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

DWP to hammer up to 900,000 Brits with benefit freeze as they move to Universal Credit

Hundreds of thousands of Brits are set to be hammered by a benefit freeze under bombshell plans to move 2.6million households onto Universal Credit.

Ministers tonight announced they will start moving people from six old-style ‘legacy’ benefits to UC on May 9 and finish in December 2024.

But up to 900,000 of the 2.6m ‘legacy’ households will be worse off long-term under UC, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted.

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