Universal Credit in Scotland could be replaced with new scheme - here's how much you could get - Daily Record

Universal Credit in Scotland could be replaced with new scheme - here's how much you could get - Daily Record



This is just crap and will result in more petty crime!! £2,400 per year for a single adult is less than the amount received on the current universal credit system. Even raising t to £4,800 is ludicrous.

£2,400 is equal to £46 per week for an adult to live on.  Who are they trying to kid?? Universal Credit pays £70 per week, just now.

Raising it to £92 per week would be better but how long until t happens?  With two annual rises, the figures will be of little difference. In general, power cost rise 6% every Spring, rents rise every Spring although a person claiming can opt to have rent allowance paid directly to a landlord. Many people do not use this option, keep the rent allowance, which inevitably leads to eviction.

In September, a figure is produced purporting to show the retail price rise amount. This percentage is then used to raise Social Security payments, in the following April. So it is costed backwards to provide a raise in the year coming. Potentially, 2 years out of date!!  Last September was 2.8% and benefits increased accordingly.

Taking £70 plus 3% next year (2020-21) gives £72.10  and £74.26 (2021-22) Do you believe that prices only rise by approx. £2 per week?  No, neither do I. I buy cooking oil, which one week can be £2.50 and the next week £3,50. I can buy in bulk and play the credit card game but an unemployable person, living alone, with a poor credit record, certainly cannot do so.