Their call comes as the BBC learns the work and pensions secretary wanted to keep the £20 a week top up.
The £20 a week increase in Universal Credit should be permanent, according to senior politicians from across the UK.
And sources have also told the BBC that Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey supported keeping the uplift.The letter calling for the top-up to be made permanent was signed by the chairs of committees at Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, Senedd in Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly. It is signed by Labour's Stephen Timms at Westminster, the SNP's Neil Gray for Holyrood, Paula Bradley of the DUP for Stormont and Welsh Labour's Jenny Rathbone at the Senedd in Cardiff.
"The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has estimated that removing the uplift would force 500,000 people, including 200,000 children, into poverty.
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