OPINIONOPINION, UK universal credit cut: ‘We don’t know how we will survive’A 20-pound-a-week reduction in income may not mean much to some, but for us, it is a matter of life and death.
![In this photo illustration, a laptop screen shows a notice to a benefits recipient that the temporary coronavirus (COVID-19) increase to their Universal Credit payment will be removed by the end of September on 5th September, 2021 in Leeds, United Kingdom. British Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to remove the 20-pound-a-week uplift to Universal Credit recipients in a move that critics have said will force the country's poorest further into poverty. [Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-1235088391.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
