British finance minister Rishi Sunak has proposed giving a one-off £500 grant to recipients of the country’s main unemployment. — file pic
The weekly increase to Universal Credit, which is paid to nearly six million working-age households affected by unemployment or low income, costs about £6 billion a year and is due to expire at the end of March. said Sunak’s allies believed he would be “very reluctant” to extend the increase to Universal Credit.
Then, Johnson told lawmakers he believed the British public “would rather see a focus on jobs and a growth in wages than focusing on welfare”.
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