Was @C4Dispatches on #UniversalCredit - an end to victim-blaming? Universal Credit was 10 Downing Streets big idea on #benefits, and its only attempt to make work pay that doesnt focus on reducing #welfare to an unliveable level. Iain Duncan Smith went travelling around Glasgow to speak to the #poor and came back with the conviction that what was needed was a default online system that joined many - but not all - benefits together, and which people could use to declare any amount of work without ending their claim. Channel 4s Dispatches has noticed the negative headlines that have swirled around the scheme, including the loss of around £130 million through mismanagement of its IT system, issues of #debt, lost claims, and endless delays, and last night broadcast its investigation into Universal Credit (UC). The programmes strength lay in making clear how the problems and misjudgements of Smith and his cronies have affected peoples lives, and showing how disconnected the ideas of our political masters have become from reality.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:51:06 +0000
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