ANTI-POVERTY campaigners warned today that one in three families in hundreds of constituencies around Britain are set to be hit with the biggest overnight cut in benefits since the second world war when the universal credit uplift ends next month.

A new study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) revealed that, in 413 parliamentary constituencies around Britain, the planned end to the £20-per-week benefits rise will hit at least a third of working-age families with children.

The temporary uplift, due to end on October 6, was introduced to help claimants weather the storm of the Covid-19 pandemic, but MPs and charities have called for it to be made permanent.