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Many legacy benefits claimants already live in poverty. Excluding them from Covid financial support unfairly penalises those who may not have access to other support or employment opportunities due to lockdown.

All across the country people are being financially impacted by the pandemic and lockdown. While additional financial support is being provided to many, people already on legacy benefits such as JSA and ESA have been excluded from the support package while those on Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit have been given an increase. I propose that to prevent unfair discrimination legacy benefit claimants and Child Tax Credit are given similar additional support.

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    MPs to debate Work and Pensions Committee Report on the DWP’s response to the coronavirus outbreak

    MPs will debate the Work and Pensions Committee Report on the DWP’s response to the coronavirus outbreak this Thursday 26 November in the main House of Commons Chamber. The subject of the debate has been determined by the Backbench Business Committee.

    This will be a debate on a motion proposed by Stephen Timms MP, Chair of the Committee, on which Members may vote at the end of the debate. It calls for the Government to take note of the report, and to increase relevant legacy benefits in line with increases to universal credit, to take steps to return people who have been inadvertently left worse off under universal credit compared with their previous benefits, and to suspend the no recourse to public funds visa condition for the duration of the coronavirus outbreak.

    The debate will start in the afternoon, following the debate on the final report of Climate Assembly UK.

    Read the report: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/1558/documents/14743/default/

    Watch the debate: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/4a97645c-8b6c-4ccc-a267-b564dfeab638

    Find out more about how Parliamentary debates work: https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/business/debates/
    Find out more about the Backbench Business Committee: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/202/backbench-business-committee/

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