IDS’s Benefit Smart Cards: trumping Osborne in the competition for most ridiculous policy idea
Benefit Smart Cards are condescending and out of touch. They also won’t make a difference.
Benefit Smart Cards are condescending and out of touch. They also won’t make a difference.
Just a fraction of the people the government wants to move to Universal Credit have been moved across to the new payment system, according to new statistics from the Department for Work & Pensions.
Further punitive restrictions on Universal Credit are on the way.
Even George Osborne is reluctant to endorse Universal Credit.
IDS has “plunged thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens into the most abject penury”, said the Labour MP.
Today we will urge the government to come clean about the impact of delays, chaos and failing programmes at the Department for Work and Pensions.
In one instance a claimant was hospitalised due to stress caused by payment delays
The Tories are trying to discredit food banks because the alternative would be to accept that their policies are creating poverty.
The new Spartacus report proposes an alternative to the broken ESA system.
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today accused the government of “hampering” its inquiry into Universal Credit.