Local MSP, Fiona Hyslop calls out Horrific Extent of Tories’ Universal Credit Cut in West Lothian
Local MSP, Fiona Hyslop has blasted the Westminster Tory Government’s decision to strip 13,689 families in West Lothian of the £20 Universal Credit uplift as “a crime against decency”. New research from the Scottish Parliament’s independent information service SPICe reveals 176,935 working households, 104,536 single parent households, 33,143 carer households, 11,887 households with disabled kids and a further 66,143 households with disabilities across Scotland will lose more than £1000 a year. And the figures expose the appalling scale of misery that this callous Tory decision will inflict on 13,689 hard-pressed households in West Lothian. Local MSP, for the Linlithgow Constituency, Fiona Hyslop commented; “This Tory government’s choice to inflict the biggest overnight cut to social security since World War II - hammering people both in and out of work –…