Friday, 6 September 2013

Universal Credit IT: Separating the Truth and the Lies

Iain Duncan Smith has been touring TV and radio stations and facing questions in the House of Commons to try to present a positive light on the scathing criticism of his flagship welfare reform programme by the National Audit Office (NAO).  He is pointing the finger at IT experts in the DWP and claiming responsibility for putting the project back on track after its now thoroughly well-documented problems. It’s just about all that Duncan Smith can do without losing face even further.  Make up your own mind about whether this is a project that can be saved – check out a list of past statements by DWP staff and ministers, and what we now know was actually happening at the time on the Computer Weekly website.

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