Rishi Sunak develops proposals to raise UK welfare payments.
Key sentence:
- The U.K. In an indication that he will bow to pressure to do more for people who have lost jobs and wages.
- In the disease outbreak, the chancellor of the exchequer has now added weekly payments to the low-paid and unemployed.
- In the disease outbreak, the chancellor of the exchequer has now added weekly payments to the low-paid and unemployed.
The U.K. In an indication that he will bow to pressure to do more for people who have lost jobs and wages, finance minister Rishi Sunak is in talks about additional assistance for welfare claimants.
In the disease outbreak, the chancellor of the exchequer has now added weekly payments to the low-paid and unemployed, but the scheme is due to come to an end in April within a year.
Despite growing calls to expand the 20-pound ($27) per week rise to Universal Credit payments, no concrete decision has yet been made according to individuals familiar with the matter. Ministers are considering choices including as much as 1,000 pounds with one bonus and extending the weekly rise by as much as a year, the individuals said.
The Conservative government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is vulnerable to claims that it neglects the pandemic’s poorest and most marginalized members of society.
He has been consistently criticized for maintaining that free meals during lockdown are provided to children from the most vulnerable families.
Rishi Sunak develops proposals to raise UK welfare payments.
Key sentence: The U.K. In an indication that he will bow to pressure to do more for people who have lost jobs and wages.
In the disease outbreak, the chancellor of the exchequer has now added weekly payments to the low-paid and unemployed.
The U.K. In an indication that he will bow to pressure to do more for people who have lost jobs and wages, finance minister Rishi Sunak is in talks about additional assistance for welfare claimants.
In the disease outbreak, the chancellor of the exchequer has now added weekly payments to the low-paid and unemployed, but the scheme is due to come to an end in April within a year.
Despite growing calls to expand the 20-pound ($27) per week rise to Universal Credit payments, no concrete decision has yet been made according to individuals familiar with the matter. Ministers are considering choices including as much as 1,000 pounds with one bonus and extending the weekly rise by as much as a year, the individuals said.
The Conservative government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is vulnerable to claims that it neglects the pandemic’s poorest and most marginalized members of society. He has been consistently criticized for maintaining that free meals during lockdown are provided to children from the most vulnerable families.
Pressure.
On Monday, the biggest opposition Labour Party of the United Kingdom will turn up the heat by demanding a vote in Parliament to expand to some of the country’s poorest families the new higher level of Universal Credit, which would be worth more than 1,000 pounds ($1,355) per year.
For Sunak, it is a tricky, juggling act. He has consistently emphasized the need to get the public finances in order after forcing out more than 280 billion pounds to fight the pandemic and help companies and employees’ weather successive economic lockdowns. Last week, Johnson indicated it was his decision not to increase the payments.
I believe that most people in this nation would rather concentrate on jobs and rising wages than focus on welfare. Still, we have to hold all of these things under review,” Johnson advised members of the Liaison Committee of Parliament.
“In a pooled television interview, questioned again on Monday regarding the issue, he said that all measures are “constantly under examination” and “we want to help people during the outbreak.
But Johnson and Sunak also face pressure from within their own Conservative Party, encouraging him to prolong the Universal Credit uplift for as long as coronavirus restrictions are in effect, including some 50 Members of Parliament from the powerful Northern Research Community.
