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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Save the Children launched the Mums United campaign in collaboration with Gingerbread, One Parent Families Scotland, the Daycare Trust and Netmums to set up pressure on the UK government to help the hardest-working families.
Warning that the Tory-led welfare reforms attack low income families, the charity predicted that a “blind spot” in the new Universal Credit will cause 150,000 working single mothers to lose up to £68 a week, or £3,500 a year.
The charity’s report also warned that reforms to the benefits system will hurt “second earners” in families, most of them women, with some households losing up to £1,800 annually.
“It is incredibly hard bringing up three kids on £370 a week. Losing almost a fifth of that will push many families over the edge,” said the charity’s chief executive Justin Forsyth.
“The Government must make sure mums who want to work keep more of their incomes and get more support with childcare. Otherwise we’ll see fewer women in the workplace and more children growing up in poverty.”
However, a spokesman for the UK Department for Work and Pensions rejected the report’s findings, saying, “Save the Children are wrong to assert that lone parents will lose as a result of the introduction of Universal Credit – the truth is 600,000 lone parents will be better off under a system which will incentivize work and make work pay.”
Furthermore, the charity warned that more than 100,000 children will be pushed into poverty only in Scotland by the end of the decade, as a result of the UK government’s benefits changes.
Douglas Hamilton, Save the Children’s head of Scotland described the welfare reforms as “a terrible blow to families up and down Scotland.”
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