Claim: The SDLP manifesto for the 2022 Assembly election claims: "The £20 Universal Credit cut marked the largest overnight welfare cut since World War II."
Fact-check: Was the Tories' £20 cut to Universal Credit the biggest overnight drop in welfare since World War II? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: this is accurate, with some provisos - mainly that making economic comparisons between different moments in time can be tricky.
Organisation: FactCheckNI
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2022-05-04T00:00:00