Rishi Sunak has blamed IT problems in government computer systems as the reason for not raising benefits to meet the cost of living crisis.
The Tory chancellor’s pathetic ‘computer says no’ excuse for not matching benefit increases with the rise in inflation came as he was asked about the real-term benefit cuts to millions of claimants.
In an interview with Bloomberg news Sunak said the government’s computer system wouldn’t let him increase benefits further this year in response to the cost of living crisis.
