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Social Secretary Shona Robison Scotland’s social security secretary has called on the UK Government to reconsider plans to ditch the £20 increase in Universal Credit that could see 500,000 people plunged into poverty. Shona Robison has written to UK work and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey and chancellor Rishi Sunak to express “grave concerns” following confirmation the minimum income floor will be reintroduced from August and benefits will be cut by £1,040 a year from October. The temporary increase was brought in during the coronavirus pandemic and senior politicians from across the UK’s four parliaments have urged the UK Government to reconsider plans to remove it, insisting it has become a “lifeline for millions of families, saving them from being impoverished”.

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