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Universal credit boss defends years of misleading information

By John Pring on 19th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Universal credit boss defends years of misleading information
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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 […]

DWP promises to go ‘slow, slow, slow, slow’ on universal credit managed migration

By John Pring on 25th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP promises to go ‘slow, slow, slow, slow’ on universal credit managed migration
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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 […]

MP suggests DWP lied over promise to introduce PIP assessment recording

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MP suggests DWP lied over promise to introduce PIP assessment recording
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An MP has suggested the government was “not telling us the truth” when it promised last year to allow all disabled people to record their personal independence payment (PIP) face-to-face assessments. The claim came in a week in which the Department […]

Union backs DPAC campaign to dump newspapers over universal credit adverts

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Union backs DPAC campaign to dump newspapers over universal credit adverts
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A trade union has backed disabled activists who are removing thousands of copies of a newspaper every week from their public distribution points over its publication of government advertising features that are air-brushing concerns about universal credit (UC). The Bakers Food […]

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