✍️ Gordon Brown | My plea is that he abides by his pledge to protect the most vulnerable
In a couple of days’ time, the UK Government will tell us if more than 500,000 families in Scotland on Universal Credit will have their benefits pegged to prices – and rise by 10.1 per cent – or be linked to earnings and increase by only five per cent.
October’s rise in gas and electricity bills averaged £10 a week. On top of April’s previous rise of £14 a week, it means 500,000 families in Scotland will be paying out 20 per cent of their income on gas and electricity bills. Families with more than two children are even harder hit, as are the disabled, because Sunak’s flat rate of £13 a week to those on benefits takes no account of family size or special needs.
An innovative project run by Fife charities which I support has created Scotland’s biggest local multi-bank. It’s a food bank, a bedding bank, a clothes bank, a toiletries bank, a home a furnishings bank and a heating bank all rolled into one. With its breakfast clubs, after-school clubs and mother-and-toddler groups now complemented by a pioneering dads’ club, grannies’ club and its own team of mental health counsellors, it has been an innovator in helping families do more with less.
No matter how much that companies, hard-pressed charities and philanthropic individuals try to match help to need, they are fighting an uphill struggle
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