MPs have called for the re-introduction of a cash uplift for people on Universal Credit. A weekly uplift was given to Universal Credit claimants during the coronavirus pandemic to help ease the financial pressure caused by lockdowns. The UK Goverment is also being urged to raise the payment to £25 per week and extended it to all claimants on legacy benefits.
The proposed uplift was put directly to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the House of Commons on Monday, March 6, by Lib Dem MP Wendy Chamberlain and SNP MP David Linden, with a couple of interventions from other SNP members showing support for the reintroduction of the weekly payment.
The proposals were reported by Nottinghamshire Live sister publication Daily Record, which stated that Ms Chamberlain told MPs: “In the long term, to end the need for additional cost of living payments we need economic growth, we need more people able to work and we need a healthier society. Poverty is the enemy of all those things.”
