The SNP has urged the Tories to scrap the 'unfair' benefit cap and uprate benefits in line with the cost of living ahead of the Budget this week
The SNP has urged the Tories to scrap the "unfair" benefit cap and uprate benefits in line with the cost of living ahead of the Budget this week.
Recent analysis from the Child Poverty Action Group found that it was a "fallacy" that the benefit cap encouraged people to work. SNP Social Justice spokesperson David Linden said: “This budget comes at a time of real difficulty for families, made even worse by the unfair benefit cap and restrictively low benefits. The Tories must scrap the cap and uprate benefits to meet the cost of living.
“The welfare system should be a safety net that exists only to support vulnerable people and empower those able to work back into meaningful, well paid employment. At present it does nothing but keep impoverished households in a vicious cycle of destitution.
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