Universal credit

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  31 August 2012     08:53189252
  #1      
  this needs to be looked at again to ensure that low paid workers do not lose out.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/millions-of-single-parents-set-to-lose-out-under-lib-dems-flagship-bid-to-offer-help-8096832.html
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  31 August 2012     09:20189254
  #2      
  As the first comment below the article explains, in crystal-clear fashion: What else did you expect?
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  1 May 2013     09:48227629
  #3      
  there are claims that the system is open to fraud as many claimants do not have access to a computer at home and will have to use the ones located in job centres.
  
  the likelihood is that most who use them will have little knowledge of computers and therefore would have no idea about security.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  28 July 2016     17:25316156
  #4      
  5 years behind schedule and even in the pilot areas staff don't really understand how it works.
  
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/28/universal-credit-payments-delays-loans
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  31 August 2018     11:58348669
  #5      
  One has to sit up and take notice when a Bishop makes an intervention.
  
  
  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/urgent-action-needed-on-universal-credit-says-bishop-188971/