Quick Guide What is universal credit and what are the problems? Claimants complain that universal credit is bafflingly complex, unreliable, and difficult to manage, particularly if you are without internet access. Multibillion-pound cuts to work allowances imposed by the former chancellor George Osborne mean universal credit is far less generous than originally envisaged. New claimants in north-east Lincolnshire will move to universal credit on 13 December. The full universal credit service was rolled out on Wednesday in Birkenhead, the Merseyside constituency of the Labour MP Frank Field.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2017 13:32 UTC