Universal Credit

  • BusinessAOL

    Autumn Statement: will it help the 'just-about managing'?

    This was billed as an Autumn Statement which would reach out to those on low and medium earnings who are just-about managing (known in Westminster as JAMs), and offer them a real boost to their household budgets. Philip Hammond made much of the

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  • BusinessAOL

    Universal Credit leaves working families poorer

    The rolling out of Universal Credit will leave the average working family worse off, after cuts have taken their toll - according to a new report. Universal Credit (the brainchild of Iain Duncan Smith) is expected to be completely rolled out by

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  • NewsAOL

    Universal credit concerns of claimant who advertised the system

    Daniel Pacey, a 24-year-old from Wigan, appeared in a film promoting Universal Credit for the Department for Work and Pensions. The nation can see him championing the scheme - after he was involved in a pilot project - and explaining how it

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  • NewsAOL

    Will you really be better off in 2015?

    With a general election next May, politicians are keen to give working families more money in their pockets in order to secure votes, or at least give the illusion of being better off. But will you keep more of your cash in 2015? The good news

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  • HealthAOL

    700,000 miss new benefit deadline

    About 700,000 claimants of a disability benefit will not be transferred to the new Universal Credit before 2017, the Government has said today. In a written statement to MPs, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith outlined the next stage

  • BusinessAOL

    Universal Credit 'has wasted £140m'

    The Government's flagship benefit reform has been savaged by MPs for "shocking" failures that have already wasted at least £140 million. The Universal Credit scheme has been blighted by "alarmingly weak" management,

  • LifestyleAOL

    Claimants 'fear' Universal Credit

    More than 2.7 million benefit recipients will struggle to cope with managing their money when the Government's flagship welfare reform scheme is rolled out, research for the Payments Council has suggested. The changes under Universal Credit