Liz Truss tells Sky News the government have ‘not yet’ made a decision over benefits
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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. 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 Truss’s benefits plans and why many Tories are sticking up for claimants Truss’s cabinet in open warfare over key policies and coup accusations
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