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.
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