Universal Credit delay ‘traps Brits in debt and forces them to food banks to pay it all back, charity warns

UNIVERSAL Credit’s five week wait for help is trapping Brits in debts which they can’t ever repay, a charity has warned. Christians Against Poverty say that the new welfare system, which encourages claimants to take out a loan while they wait for their first payment, makes it impossible to pay it back and survive. The […]