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Is There a One Off Payment in Universal Credit?

I think also rushestonat was very burned by the effort to end the temporary increase in universal credit, and the constant push back against tis. And i think there is concern about pushing more help down that route. I wonder if the treasury this summer might be able to do just a kind of one off payment to a learned the lesson about how difficult it is to bring these rates back down pretty soon. Now, the impact of all this inflation roment means that the tax receipts are probably going to be, ironically, ofvisly, produce the phiscal drag in a much better place.

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