Scores of essentially the most underprivileged individuals in Lanarkshire have misplaced out on a whole bunch of kilos because of the profit cap.
The most recent numbers from the Division of Work and Pensions confirmed round 120,000 households throughout the UK had been topic to the cap as of February 2022.
In South Lanarkshire 137 households noticed their common credit score advantages capped, whereas in neighbouring North Lanarkshire the determine was even increased, at 164 properties.
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A smaller variety of properties are prone to have been affected by means of caps to housing profit.
As a result of their advantages are capped, these households noticed no enhance of their revenue in any respect when most advantages had been elevated by 3.1 per cent in April this 12 months, which charity the Youngster Poverty Motion Group acknowledged meant they had been, in actuality, seeing their revenue lower as a consequence of rising inflation.
The cap limits the quantity of advantages that low-earning or non-working households throughout the UK can obtain to £20,000.
Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey has over 55 households in her space affected by the cap and has known as on the Tory Authorities to scrap it.
She advised Lanarkshire Dwell : "Ever since its introduction in 2013, this callous coverage has completed nothing however punish essentially the most weak and severely restrict their capacity to offer for themselves and their households.
"Because the Tory price of residing disaster ravages households throughout the nation, it is crucial we have a look at methods of supporting individuals financially, not establishing extra obstacles and taking cash out of their pockets.
"It's gone time the disgraceful profit cap went."
Of the 120,000 households throughout the nation, round 103,000, or 86 per cent, are households.
John Dickie, director of the CPAG in Scotland, advised us : "The price of residing disaster exhibits that the UK Authorities’s profit cap is damaged, and must go. It has at all times pressured households to stay on a lot lower than they want, however as costs spiral the results are brutal and throughout the UK greater than 300,000 youngsters are amongst its casualties."
A DWP spokesman stated the profit cap offered a “sturdy work incentive” and ensured equity for taxpayers by encouraging individuals to maneuver into work when potential.
He acknowledged: "We preserve the cap underneath evaluate and any revision would align with the timing of choices on uprating advantages, with adjustments taking impact the next April."
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