MPs severely criticise DWP for withholding information on 'very bad' universal credit - Politics live Read moreFrank Field said he suspected that ministers had only pressed ahead with the accelerated rollout of universal credit this month because civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had withheld the true scale of the problems. “I don’t know if the DWP is deliberately concealing information about universal credit or is simply incompetent. The committee has since received over 100 evidence submissions on universal credit from claimants, landlords, councils and charities. “The overwhelming picture we are getting is that universal credit as currently configured is very bad news. Meanwhile, committee members have taken up our invitation to visit a jobcentre to see how universal credit works for themselves.

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2017 15:53 UTC