It’s the best of times and worst of times for welfare
secretary Iain Duncan Smith. The universal credit – an all in one replacement
for welfare benefits – is proving popular with claimants in the places where
it’s being trialled. That’s the good news. The bad news is, at the current rate
of roll out will take a long time to take effect. The original target was to
get a million people onto universal credit by this year. In reality there are
just 14,000. DWP has now released a new projection of the roll-out dates:
100,000 people will be getting the new benefit by May 2015, rising to 500,000
by May 2016. Duncan Smith said he hoped everyone would be on the benefit by
2018, though he admitted some difficult groups may not. Read more on the Channel 4 website.
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