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    Weak management and poor governance says Governments own Auditors...nicely sums up Wellfare reform.

    Universal credit crunch: Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reform wastes £34m - so far

    Department for Work and Pensions beset by 'weak management and poor governance' according to the

    Government's own auditors, while benefits programme attacked as 'titanic IT disaster'.

    The wide-ranging reforms to Britain's benefits system have been beset by "weak management,

    poor governance" and a "fortress mentality" that has so far wasted £34m of taxpayers' money,

    the Government's own auditors conclude today.

    In a damning report, the National Audit Office (NAO) said the Department for Work and Pensions

    has never had a "detailed view" of how its flagship universal credit programme was meant to work

    - and suggested it might never result in the billions of pounds of savings claimed by ministers.

    Iain Duncan Smith, who has staked his personal reputation on the success of the scheme, is

    expected to be forced to make a statement on the failures identified to MPs today. Senior

    government sources suggested the blame should fall on Robert Devereux - the most senior

    civil servant in the department - whom they accused of providing false reassurances on the

    scheme's progress.

    Full story in Independent...short c&p instead of link,which few read.

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