A CROSS-PARTY group of MPs is putting pressure on ministers to extend the £20-a-week “uplift” to all households claiming benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic.

MPs will be voting in the Commons tomorrow on whether to axe the £20-a-week boost to universal credit.

The all-party parliamentary group on poverty has called for the uplift to be extended past April and broadened, so that two million people on so-called legacy benefits can also receive it, as well as for the cap on benefits to be suspended.