A senior tribunals judge has thrown doubt over the future
of universal credit after it "disappeared" from DWP forecasts on the
number of predicted appeals. Judge Robert Martin said "Universal credit,
which was heralded by DWP as delivering £35 billion of savings, might prove
just too impracticable to implement in full." Writing in the Judicial Information Bulletin,
which goes out to all tribunal members, Judge Martin revealed that the DWP is no
longer predicting that there will be any universal credit (UC) appeals between
now and 2019. He states that in its April 2013 forecast the DWP expected there
to be 1,355 UC appeals in 2013-14 and 77,926 UC appeals in 2014-15. However, by
the end of March 2014 there had been only three appeals. Read more on 24dash.
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