Universal credit is the ‘key to many families avoiding real hardship’, the Resolution Foundation think tank has claimed.
The welfare scheme, which has been widely criticised for its failures in the past, has been lauded as a last resort by the think tank’s chief executive, Torsten Bell after it emerged that nearly a million new claims had been made in the past fortnight.
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