The UK is heading towards the "biggest overnight social security cut" since the modern welfare state was founded, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

They've been investigating the impact of the decision to cut Universal Credit payments by £20 a week from October, and they say it could plunge half a million more people into poverty, as well as putting millions of low income families under further financial strain.

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