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Closed Increase the standard allowance for those under 25 on Universal Credit.

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Currently individuals under 25 receive £251.77, whilst those under 25 recieve £317.82 - a difference of £66.05. I cannot understand the reasoning for this, as it doesn’t take individual circumstances into consideration. Someone who is 19 may have the same costs as someone who is 26, but given less?

“In a written question response to the MP for Airdrie and Shotts, the DWP said that the reason lone parents under 25 on Universal Credit receive less money than under the legacy system is because they have lower living costs. Can you tell me in what way it costs a 24 year old less to be a single parent than a 26 year old?”

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https://www.snp.org/50-questions-phillip-hammond-and-the-tories-dont-want-us-to-ask-so-weve-asked-them/
https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/what-youll-get

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