A cabinet minister is under fire after wrongly claiming that universal credit claimants could recoup their £20-a-week benefit cut by working just 2 extra hours, when the reality is up to 9 hours, experts say. Therese Coffey got her sums badly wrong as she ruled out a rethink on next month’s harsh reduction, which is predicted to plunge half a million more people into poverty, including 200, 000 children. Pointing to “ record numbers of vacancies ” as the UK emerges from Covid, the work and pensi
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2021-09-15 00:00:00.0