The universal credit increase is due to be reduced to its pre-pandemic level next month.

The £20 boost was introduced as a temporary measure in March 2020, to help new claimants adjust to the extra costs of the pandemic. 

Now the cut-off date is looming, it has caused a divided opinion among citizens in Bradford.

We asked Telegraph and Argus readers on Facebook how the cut will affect them. 

Here’s what they had to say:

“I think families that are struggling will find it hard, that extra £100 a month gone, might be extra electric or gas or a better food shop"

"It's going to be hard with prices rising on other things too we're going backward in this country like wartime without the bombs.”

“If we look at how food & domestic bill increases have shot up recently for all of us who are working - then how poorer families are going to cope I don't know - and we haven’t finished with the expected gas rises yet.. living hell tbh!..”

However, some readers reiterated that it was a ‘temporary increase’ and the cut should have been expected by claimants.

"It was meant as a short term solution, and anyone with any common sense knows to never take the extra for granted, if people would learn to live for tomorrow they'd be fine. Only my opinion but makes perfect sense"

“It's not a cut, it was a temporary measure so it's just been stopped, personally it was a joke, to begin with.”

“It’s not a cut, it’s a removal of the extra given during COVID, they didn’t have it before and survived, I don’t understand how they can’t survive now?”

The reduction is set to come into effect on October 6, 2021.

As many as 1.5 million workers could be affected as a result of Universal Credit cuts, Citizens Advice has warned.