Write to your MP regarding £20 Uplift - Retain and Transfer to Legacy Benefits

MarkM88

Just to clarify, I know some people will think this approach might not be the best, but then others might think differently, so please respect that whatever we all decide it is our individual choice. 

Tori has already agreed through private message I can link to this site and request. 

If anyone is interested in sending their MP an email in relation to the £20 uplift for UC and also asking for it to be added to legacy benefits, please follow the below link:

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2021/july/write-your-mp-ensure-£20-week-uc-increase-retained-and-extended-esa

woodbine

I suspect it might be too late now, the commons has risen for it's summer break, and will only return briefly in september before conferences, and of course during that time individual MP's will be away on holiday.

Whilst in an ideal world the uplift would become permanent and would also be paid to legacy benefit claimants, it now seems unlikely that this will become a reality.

There is a high court case looming re:legacy benefits but i'm not holding my breath because if the govt. loses they will in all likelihood just keep appealing the decision.

And of course the cost of both these actions would be in the billions if open ended at a time when national debt is expected to be 107% of GDP in the current year.

So I do wonder how those demanding these payments suggest how they would be paid for?

Lisatho11987777

Been campaigning since they said it was going to be taken off  some people weren't Aware that they had it untill months later it has only just been put on my journal for universal credit 

I think we will just have to see but I think it will be taken off due to how many people are without jobs and more jobs are being lost every day not just because of corona virus but also due to affects of brexit 

I think the two happening together has brought the UK to its knees and its going to be a rocky road ahead and poverty is most likely going to get worse 

Food banks are running out of food some familys struggle to the point where the parents don't eat so they can feed their children 

Politicians and the government and royalty don't know what its like to struggle maybe they should try it for 12 months 

Here is hopeing someone will stick up for those who will struggle without the uplift 

woodbine

The reality is that whilst unemployment was expected to reach 3 million it is half of that and there are around 800,000 vacancies. And I wouldn't agree that the UK is on it's knees.
And please explain why royalty should live in poverty for 12 months?

MarkM88

Kind of getting off topic. 

Cher_Alumni

Hi everyone

Here's a link to the Institute for Fiscal Studies publication around 'The expiry of the Universal Credit uplift: impacts and policy options' that outlines the situation in more detail and options open to the government going forwards.  

The broader picture of poverty in the UK is definitely connected, but an entangled, complex issue that holds potential to detract from @MarkN88 's intention in starting this thread.  Please feel free to start a new thread to debate poverty in more depth if you wish and thank you for sharing the initial link too @MarkN88 

woodbine

Sorry I thought my contribution was valid and very much on topic, I'll bow out of this one then now. Before i do so I would add that the govt. takes no notice of the IFS since it decided to have the OBR, and the person who used to run the IFS now runs the OBR and has done for ten years.

Ross_Alumni

Closed upon request of the OP.

Lisatho11987777

I cant get on the link