This is how we fix Universal Credit

The basic rate of benefit support falls woefully short – Iain Porter, senior policy advisor at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explains what needs to happen now.

People are facing deepening poverty, rising destitution and food bank need. Pic: Unsplash

This week, MPs debated the annual benefits ‘Uprating Order’ on how much benefits will rise by this year. But without an evidence-based foundation, this annual process always proves arbitrary and unfit for purpose, as the updated Universal Credit rates never reflect …