Shadow work and pensions secretary says differences between tax credits and recent welfare system are discriminatory and leave families worse off
Labour is taking advice from lawyers on whether benefit cuts under universal credit are illegal,raising the possibility that the recent welfare system could be challenged in court.
Owen Smith, the shadow work and pensions secretary, and said it was discriminatory that a single mother working full time on the minimum wage could be nearly £3000 worse off under universal credit than a mother in precisely the same circumstances on tax credits.
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Source: theguardian.com