Universal credit is no answer to growing poverty | Letters

We need universal basic income, writes William Shutt; Paul Nicholson and Baldev Sharma on the damage done by poverty and Pat Munro calls for women’s refuges to be protectedYou deserve credit for drawing attention to the failings of universal credit (Report, 24 November). Yet despite all the evidence of this inadequacy, you appear to assume, like the two main political parties, that with sufficient pause such a system can be made to work in a way that is ultimately sustainable. Universal cr