From January 2019, universal credit will be scaled up to reach millions more households through a process described as “managed migration”. This process will allow for existing social security support to be terminated, with individuals bearing the responsibility for making a successful new universal credit claim within a fixed period of time. One in five claims to universal credit currently fail because claimants find the process too complex. Based on this rate, about 400,000 households could see their universal credit claim fall through and be left without essential support. Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2018 17:26 UTC