Universal Credit has damaged thousands of people’s lives in Southwark. We now know it is also more likely to cause fraud as criminals have been using it to steal people’s benefits.
DWP promised a vote on new safeguards for Universal Credit in July. I asked when that vote would happen but the Minister’s response was rubbish: offering no hope that problems would be addressed as urgently as needed.
Universal credit urgent question
Universal Credit has damaged thousands of people’s lives in Southwark. We now know it is also more likely to cause fraud as criminals have been using it to steal people’s benefits. DWP promised a vote on new safeguards for Universal Credit in July. I asked when that vote would happen but the Minister’s response was rubbish: offering no hope that problems would be addressed as urgently as needed.
Posted by Neil Coyle MP on Wednesday, July 10, 2019