Ministers attempting to put the troubled universal credit
welfare reform programme back on track have been presented with a radical plan
to restart the scheme and write off £119m of work over the past three years.
The proposals would create a much more web-based system, reducing the need for
jobcentre staff, but putting the whole scheme back to "phase one".
The plan is detailed in more than 150 pages of leaked documents that present two
options for rescuing the huge project. The other plan would attempt to improve
the existing system and build on the investment already made. Both plans were
drawn up by civil servants at the direction of DWP ministers. The documents include a risk assessment of
each option, which criticises both plans and warns that a maximum of 25,000
people – just 0.2% of all benefit recipients – will be transferred on to the
programme by the next general election, whichever route is taken. Read more on the Guardian website.
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