DWP Just Quietly Revealed The Staggering Scale Of Misery Caused By Universal Credit

The DWP has revealed the extent to which Universal Credit is throwing claimants into arrears, debt, and poverty in the results of a claimant survey on its flagship benefit. The survey was carried out between March and September 2017, in two waves. The first wave was with 1,014 claimants, three to four months into their claims. The second was with 1,004 claimants, five months later. Overall in both waves only 25% of claimants said they were “keeping up with bills and credit commitments without any difficulties”. 72% either struggled from “time to time” or constantly, fell behind or were having “real financial difficulties”. Read more on the Canary website.

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2018/06/09/the-dwp-just-quietly-revealed-the-staggering-scale-of-misery-caused-by-universal-credit/