Universal Credit: Treasury Still to Sign off Business Case

Questions over the fate of the government’s flagship welfare reform programme will continue until after the election as it was revealed that the Treasury has still not signed off the business case for universal credit and will not decide whether to do so until summer next year. A final decision might not come until 2016. The Treasury said it would not be able to firm up the numbers until at least the summer of 2015. It was also revealed that the Major Projects Authority still has UC graded as “amber-red”, and is therefore a source of serious concern for the body responsible for overseeing the government’s major capital programme. Read more on the Guardian website.