This Letter was published in today's Daily Telegraph from a number of faith leaders and others:
SIR – The extensive cuts being debated by MPs this week as part of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill include restricting child tax credits, removing the work-related activity component of the Employment and Support Allowance and further reducing the benefit cap.
Despite a welcome increase in the minimum wage, it is now widely understood that this Bill will make low-income working families worse off and penalise disabled people who are taking their first steps back to work.
An effective social safety net based on dignity and compassion is vital in any just society, yet this Bill will make the lives of already vulnerable households ever more precarious.
Paul Parker
Recording Clerk, Quakers in Britain
Niall Cooper
Director, Church Action on Poverty
Cathy Ashley
Chief Executive, Family Rights Group
Dave Prentis
General Secretary, Unison
Jonathan Arkush
President, Board of Deputies of British Jews
Amanda Batten
Chief Executive, Contact a Family
Megan Dunn
President, National Union of Students
John Ellis
Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reformed Church
Duncan Exley
Director, The Equality Trust
Lt-Col Melvin Fincham
Secretary for Communications, The Salvation Army
Sally Foster-Fulton
Convener, Church and Society Council, Church of Scotland
Alison Garnham
Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group
Rev Steven Keyworth
Team Leader of Faith and Society, Baptist Church
Derek McAuley
Chief Officer, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
Judith Moran
Director, Quaker Social Action
Helen O'Brien
Chief Executive, CSAN (Caritas Social Action Network)
Mohammad Shahid Raza
Founder Trustee, British Muslim Forum, and Head Imam, Leicester Central Mosque
Chaya Spitz
Chief Executive, The Interlink Foundation
The Rt Rev David Walker
Bishop of Manchester
The Rev Steven Wild
President, Methodist Conference
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