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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jemma Crew

Plan to move legacy claimants on to Universal Credit ‘too dangerous to continue’

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More than 20 charities have urged the Government not to resume moving 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 Therese Coffey warning that plans to move legacy benefit claimants on to the new system are “too dangerous to continue”.

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