Low-income working families are losing hundreds of pounds
each year – and being wrongly denied free healthcare entitlements – because of
flaws in the way universal credit is designed, campaigners say. The Child
Poverty Action Group (CPAG ) said arbitrary rules built in to the way universal
credit is calculated leave some families unable to predict how much they will
be paid each month, leaving households in debt and unable to budget. It can
lead to claimants being wrongly benefit-capped – a penalty designed to
“incentivise” jobless or low-earning households by severely limiting their
benefits – because the system fails to spot they are working and earning
enough. Read more on the Guardian website.
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