Universal Credit could cut poverty, says TUC
The new Universal Credit system could help cut poverty, the TUC has suggested, but only by spending more money on it.
Writing in its ToUChstone blog, Alison Garnham says that current benefits policies, including increasing them by less than the rate of inflation, are designing poverty into the system and ensuring the number living on an insufficient income is increasing.
She points out that increasing key elements of Universal Credit, including the value of the child elements or the limit up to which a family can retail earnings, could lift more children out of poverty.
