Struggling households in Great Britain risk losing hundreds of pounds a month in payments

Tens of thousands of struggling families on universal credit will be told in the run-up to Christmas their benefit payments are to be capped – leaving them potentially hundreds of pounds a month worse off and at risk of destitution.

Many claimants who lost their jobs in March under the first coronavirus lockdown and have been unemployed since will be informed in December by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that their benefits will be slashed unless they find work.

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