Liz Truss tells Sky News the government have ‘not yet’ made a decision over benefits

In a series of media interviews on Tuesday, Liz Truss told Sky News’s Beth Rigby the government had ‘not yet’ made a decision on whether to increase benefits after the rise of inflation, despite the former prime minister Boris Johnson promising to do so.
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Johnson had said there would be an uplift as this year’s benefits are pegged against the previous September’s inflation at 3.1%. It is now significantly higher and so the poorest have already seen a major hit to their finances.

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