Grimly fascinating to look at this from an intl development aid perspective, where there's been a push towards cash/voucher programming for YEARS, on the basis that a) people know best how to spend their money and b) it stimulates local economies. https://twitter.com/RoadsideMum/status/1348646428084760576
It's bizarre that we're not applying the same principles within the UK, and the only explanation I can think of is because the government wants to retain the possibility to profit of people's poverty and desperation.
If this had been done in a Global South country that was receiving development aid, it would (rightly) be called out as corruption of the highest order.
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