Universal Credit: DWP minister addresses uplift amid warning for legacy benefit claimants

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EXCLUSIVE: DWP minister issues warning for legacy benefit claimants as he addresses the Universal Credit £20 per week uplift

"It also, as it happened, brought Universal Credit in line with SSP [Statutory Sick Pay] and in addition, we wouldn't have been able to make the system changes to what are quite archaic legacy benefits systems even if we had wanted to.

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