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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Dan Bloom & Kate Lally

Universal Credit could be scrapped with everyone given £163 a week instead

A radical plan that would see Universal Credit thrown out has been unveiled by a group of benefit claimants and those who have previously needed financial help.

Instead, all adults would get at least £163.50 a week.

The sum - half the minimum wage - has been proposed by the Commission on Social Security group as a “streamlined” way of keeping millions of Brits out of poverty, the Mirror reports.

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