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<p>Throughout the pandemic this Government has continued to support the lowest-paid
families by targeting our support to those most in need by raising the national living
wage, spending hundreds of billions to safeguard jobs, boosting welfare support by
billions and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme. It has also pledged
to put an extra £1.7 billion a year into Work Allowances by 2023/24, increasing them
by £1,040 a year for working parents and disabled claimants.</p><p> </p><p>There are
currently no plans to reduce the Universal Credit taper rate. This Government has
already made significant investment to reduce it from 65% to 63% in 2017.</p>
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