The government's flagship programme to shake up the
benefits system is facing fresh problems in a battle between two departments at
the heart of the scheme. Friction between the DWP and the Cabinet Office overseen
by Francis Maude is now causing "high-level" risks to the delivery of
the project, according to minutes of a Whitehall meeting. Maude's department,
minutes of the government's universal credit board confirm, has also
accelerated the pullout of its elite team of IT experts from the project after
what sources describe as serious tensions over the progress of the £2.4bn
overhaul. The DWP is now urgently searching for new IT specialists to keep the
complex software project on track. As a result, future implementation of
universal credit could now face delays and increased costs because of the
pullout, senior civil servants have been told, according to the minutes. Read
more on the Guardian website.
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