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In ‘benefits Britain’, work simply doesn’t pay

  UK Economics & Policy In "Benefits Britain," Work Simply Doesn't Pay — Here's Why Millions of Britons are discovering that taking a job ca

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Universal Credit Claimants Don’t Fall for This Bank Statement Trap: Art...

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In the Guardian today I hear another person commits suicide over his benefit. Thousands have died at the hands of beneift policy, how many more have too?

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The senior civil servant in charge of universal credit has repeatedly refused to explain why ministers have spent years using misleading information to try to persuade disabled people to transfer onto the government’s new working-age benefit system.

Neil Couling spent three days on social media this week attempting to persuade Disability News Service (DNS) to run a news story that would show many disabled people “how much better off they’d be on UC”.

Couling, a DWP director general and in charge of the implementation of universal credit (UC), had initially responded to a DNS news story which reported how DWP had bowed to pressure from a regulator and finally published figures that proved at least one million disabled people would eventually be left worse off through the rollout of UC. https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/universal-credit-boss-defends-years-of-misleading-information/

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Universal Credit uplift

A train wreck about to happen. This post is time limited, it’s Sept 26 2021 and on the 31st will be the last day that people on Universal credit will receive the £20/week covid-19 “uplift” payment.Because UC is paid monthly this equates to £86/month for people.I stopped working just after this uplift was added to UC so in my case I have only ever had this uplift as I started my UC claim after it…

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Universal Credit get up to 10 000£ this winter

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For 6 months those on legacy benefits have gone without the vital extra support people on #UniversalCredit receive. 6 months of silence from the Government. @theresecoffey, disabled people cannot be left behind any longer - #IncreaseDisabilityBenefits now: https://bit.ly/3aqRmmf (at Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFwYX-nhoI4/?igshid=zoo6cjnwyy8k