Iain Duncan Smith’s floundering Universal Credit system
will have to deal with 1.6million changes to people’s claims every month, a
Government adviser has revealed. The shocking figure throws fresh doubt over
whether the Work Secretary’s flagship scheme will ever be fully up and running
after being dogged by delays and glitches. Professor John Hills reveals the
scale of the challenge in a new book that explodes the “strivers versus skivers”
myth peddled by politicians. Professor Hills, of the London School of
Economics, warns: “This will make the system hard to run.” Read more on the
Daily Mirror website.
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