EXCLUSIVE: DWP ministers say the communications are 'still being finalised' as families head into the school summer holidays - with a £20-a-week cut in benefits waiting on the other sideBenefit chiefs are still “finalising” warning letters to six million Brits whose Universal Credit will be cut in 10 weeks’ time. Welfare claimants are to get online messages, letters and phone calls before October notifying them of the £20-a-week deduction. “If your department is to proceed with this cut, families need to know about it as soon as possible. Six former Work and Pensions Secretaries have called for the cut to be axed, warning that failing to do so would "damage living standards, health and opportunities”. That means there will be millions of claimants who have never known life with the benefit £20 lower than it is now, and will be seeing the cut for the first time.

Source: Daily Mirror July 19, 2021 06:00 UTC