Budget: Labour urges Sunak to help families facing ‘immediate pressures’
by Rowena Mason Deputy political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#5R6KD)
Opposition says rise in national living wage will not make up for universal credit cut amid cost-of-living crisis
Rishi Sunak has been urged to use the budget to help families with immediate pressures" through the winter, as pay rises alone are unlikely to make up for the cost-of-living crisis and universal credit cut.
Bridget Phillipson, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the chancellor was so far giving with one hand and taking away with the other" as the national living wage rise would not in many cases make up for the 20 a week cut to universal credit and rising inflation.
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