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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has pledged to go “slow, slow, slow, slow” when it finally begins to transfer the remaining group of claimants receiving “legacy” benefits onto universal credit over the next three years. Neil Couling, DWP’s director […]
Disabled activists have protested outside the Royal Courts of Justice to draw attention to the continuing harm caused by universal credit, as the high court hears a legal challenge that aims to brand the government’s policy “irrational” and “discriminatory”. Members of […]
The roll out of the government’s much-criticised universal credit benefit system has not been delayed and will proceed as planned, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed. Reports at the weekend suggested that new work and pensions secretary Amber […]
The failure of ministers to make a key change to the way the government will move existing benefit claimants onto universal credit could see hundreds of thousands of disabled people left without any income at all, campaigners fear. Work and pensions […]