Half a million people will fall into deep poverty without welfare reforms, chancellor warned

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Half a million people will fall into deep poverty without welfare reforms, chancellor warned
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More than 50 organisations urge Rishi Sunak to make benefits increase permanent as Labour attacks government’s plans as throwback ‘to the worst days of Thatcher’

unless Rishi Sunak makes a temporary increase in Universal Credit permanent, a group of more than 50 organisations has warned.

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