Yet the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has still not coughed up back pay for more than 10,000 SDP claimants who'd already moved over. Days before the judgement, the DWP agreed to stop future SDP claimants moving to Universal Credit. Ministers also said they would give back payments to the 4,000 SDP claimants who had already moved. That means thousands of extra SDP claimants were moved to Universal Credit before the cut-off date. Mr Sharma told the Commons Work and Pensions Committee: "We recognise we had to do something."

Source: Daily Mirror May 01, 2019 10:50 UTC