A new DWP report has appeared to signal yet another delay
to the Universal Credit welfare scheme. Iain Duncan Smith said ‘Universal
Credit at Work’ is a comprehensive report which outlines progress to date and
details “some encouraging early results” from pilot projects.” But on the
ambition to transfer all 7.7 million claimants by 2017, Mr Duncan Smith said
that was the DWP’s “belief at the moment under the system that we are running,”
before warning that “arbitrary dates and deadlines are the enemy of secure
delivery”. The admission increases the
likelihood that from 2016 to well into 2018, Britain will have a two-tier
welfare system with some people on Universal Credit and millions not. Download
the report from the DWP website.
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