The cost of delivering Iain Duncan Smith’s troubled
Universal Credit scheme is £225,000 for each person on it, it has been claimed.
The project has already cost the taxpayer £612million and has been dogged by
delays and IT blunders. Mr Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, had
promised one million people would be receiving their welfare payments under the
scheme by April this year. But figures show only 2,720 claimants have been
transferred onto the Universal Credit so far - a cost of £225,000 per person.
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