Thursday, 5 February 2015

Govt. Dodged Scrutiny of Universal Credit

The damage coalition cuts and bodge have done to Universal Credit was omitted from the National Audit Office assessment of the scheme in November.  The full story emerged a week after the auditor published its report. Had the NAO been able to put all the cards on the table, it may have discredited the coalition as the country entered its few months of mudslinging before the general election in May. The ambitious Universal Credit welfare scheme was in a worse state than the DWP had admitted when the auditor did its assessment. But this may have been caused more by government cuts in welfare to people in low paid jobs than its well-publicised IT problems. Read more on Computer Weekly.

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