Gordon Brown today calls for "immediate action" to ensure families can afford to live through the cost of living crisis.
The former PM makes the intervention in the introduction to a report by Loughborough University, which warned the government's flat-rate handouts will fall short of allowing families to cope with skyrocketing prices.
For an out-of-work family with two children, the combined loss of the Universal Credit uplift, a below inflation uprating of benefits and a further jump in the energy price cap amounted to nearly £1,300.
