Welfare fund payments to those most in need could be slashed by more than £1m when West Lothian sets its budget next week.
Extra funding that the council has put into the Scottish Welfare Fund is unlikely to be available from April, a meeting of the Corporate Policy and Resources Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel heard this week.
At the same time new figures show that almost half of the 14,000 people in receipt of Universal Credit in West Lothian are working and struggling to make ends meet.
