MPs consider devasting effect of the benefits freeze on poverty

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Work and Pensions Committee to question Amber Rudd on benefit levels “driving destitution and poverty”

Monday 11 March 2019, 4:15pm

MPs rubber stamp benefits freeze for another year

The Committee has compiled evidence that shows that ending the benefits freeze - for all frozen benefits other than child benefit – a year early, in this year’s Spring Statement, would lift 200,000 people out of poverty.