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Letter: Ending pandemic top-up payments will have impact (2)

Published 27 October 2021

From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

You tell us how many more children will suffer from a list of ill effects when the UK government stops giving out £20 a week in top-up payments. The UK should start giving £40 a week, and you’ll have exactly the opposite result.

Issue no. 3358 published 30 October 2021

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