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UK to cut universal credit health element 50%

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  • UK government plans welfare overhaul, cutting benefits for under-25s.
  • Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the party would ban under-25s with less than six months work from universal credit.
  • Universal credit health element will be cut 50% to £217 a month for most new claimants from April.
  • Charities including Scope warn poverty could rise among under-22 households from 50% to over 90%.