More than 20 charities have urged the UK Government not to restart moving 2.6 million people receiving older benefits on to Universal Credit unless it can guarantee nobody’s income will be cut off during the cost of living crisis.
Groups have written to Work and Pensions Secretary Dr Therese Coffey warning that plans to move legacy benefit claimants on to the new system are “too dangerous to continue”.
They say the incomes of more than 700,000 people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and dementia could be put at risk, and that the consequences of having benefits halted could be “devastating and life-threatening”.
