Call to mitigate cuts to Universal Credit - Sioned Williams

Sioned Williams MS, has today call for action to mitigate cuts to Universal Credit, as the £20 weekly uplift in Universal Credit comes to an end.

The £1,040 annual cut to the budgets of households in receipt of Universal Credit is going ahead today for some 275,000 people in Wales despite widespread warnings of the detrimental impact it will have on people living in poverty.

Speaking at the Senedd today, Sioned Williams, the MS for South Wales West, called for more to be done to tackle poverty and calls to devolve welfare powers to Wales.

Sioned Williams added: 

“Today's cut comes as living costs in Wales are rising, household energy costs are rocketing and household debt is deepening. Wales must act now to mitigate the effects of this disastrous decision on 275,000 of Wales’s poorest households; a failure to do so would be a gross abdication of this basic responsibility.

“Devoliving of welfare powers to Wales means  we can provide a decent life for all. ”