UC REFORMS 'WILL HELP FAMILIES'

AN ESTIMATED 110,000 households in Scotland will be hundreds of pounds better off due to reforms to Universal Credit, the UK Government has said.

- ANDREW QUINN

The new Fair Repayment Rate will cap the amount repaid from benefit payments each month for short-term loans and debts at 15 per cent instead of 25 per cent. It will come into force next April.