More than half of people on Universal Credit in some part of the country are seeing their payments cut by an average of £61 a week.
New figures show 42% of claimants - 2.02million - had a deduction from their welfare payment in November, totalling £124million across the UK - and in some areas the percentage haveing their benefit cut is closer to 60%.
Almost half of the reductions, 46%, were to pay back advances, issued to cover the five-week wait for people’s first Universal Credit payment, reports The Mirror.
