Economics

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Welfare Reform - Universal Credit

Level:: AS, A-Level, IB

Board:: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, Eduqas, WJEC

Last updated 23 Dec 2018

Universal credit is a huge reform to the working of the welfare benefits system in the UK. But is it fast becoming a landmark example of government failure? For example, delays to initial payments of Universal Credit are expected to drive the need for food banks even higher in 2018.

Universal Credit: Is the system working? (BBC Newsnight, December 2018)

Universal credit forcing families to wait months for help to pay childcare bills, MPs warn https://t.co/gsPsJp2W26 pic.twitter.com/ytX5kBkOml
— The Independent (@Independent) December 23, 2018