Every adult in the country could be eligible for £163.50 a week and Universal Credit would be scrapped in an idea put forward by the Commission on Social Security
The group wants the amount to go to any adult whose earnings fall below £163.50 a week.
The commission also wants to see child benefit doubled to £50 a week and their plan would see Personal Independence Payments range from £83.70 to £230.77, reports The Mirror.
The Commission is an organisation that looks at radical reform of the benefit system and is funded by inequality campaign group Trust for London.
Commission secretary Michael Orton of the Institute for Employment Research at Warwick University, said: “The pandemic showed that when times were tough it was unpaid carers, supermarket workers and others on low incomes who kept our society going.
"It also showed that if we choose to, we can provide social security for everyone.
“However, the recent cut to Universal Credit means the government is headed in the wrong direction. With a cost of living crisis looming in 2022, it doesn’t have to be like this.”
