The Government's promise that families will be better off working with universal credit has been broken by seven years of cuts to tax credits and universal credit, research by the Child Poverty Action Group (APPG) and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) claims.
According to the analysis, entitled ‘The Austerity Generation’, while under universal credit, work incentives are improved for some families, big falls in family income caused by cuts and changes to the new system leave many worse off overall. Any gains from increases in the national living wage, personal tax allowances and help for childcare are lost.
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