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Millions will not benefit from Sunak’s ‘tax cut for low paid’, say activists
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Millions of struggling low-income households will not benefit from the £2bn “tax cut for the low paid” announced by the chancellor in the budget as a way of easing the pain of soaring living costs, according to campaigners.
The reduction from 63p in the pound to 55p in the universal credit taper rate – the amount in benefits a claimant loses for each pound they earn above a set work allowance – was intended to soften the blow of the withdrawal this month of the £20 a week universal credit uplift.
Calling it a “tax cut for low-paid families”, the Rishi Sunak said about two million qualifying households would be at least £1,000 a year better off. He also announced a £500 boost to the work allowance and confirmed a 6.6% rise in the “national
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