CAMPAIGNERS will target the Department for Work and Pensions in Sheffield tomorrow in protest at increasing worker poverty.

Sheffield TUC will be among organisations taking part in the protest, which runs from noon to 1pm at the DWP offices at Hartshead.

The government’s universal credit “uplift” of £20, which was introduced during the pandemic, is to be withdrawn tomorrow.

Forty per cent of claimants are from working families, with in-poverty workers also hit by a £150 increase in national insurance payments and an estimated £600 a year in increased energy prices, Sheffield TUC secretary Martin Mayer explained.

“Our welfare system is the meanest in Europe, and no other country has tens of thousands of citizens queueing at food banks to survive,” he said.

“Those numbers are about to grow massively. Shame on the UK: shame on this Tory government. 

“We are not going away: we will hold this government to account for its merciless attack on those least able to afford it.”