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Managed migration won’t start until November 2020
Hi Daphne - I can’t open this pdf, can you help?
A moment before in saw your post I was checking the parliamentary calendar for any sign of the Managed Migration Regs being debated - there is nothing before the recess, as far as I can see.
Got it now, sorry.
Reading between the lines, I think Mr Couling is envisaging a scenario in which managed migration never happens, or at least gets kicked so far down the road there’ll only be…like…a couple of thousand people left! I can see certain benefits from the government’s point of view in letting it just roll out as people’s circumstances change , as against huge risks involved in trying to move people over. Just me speculating.
Reading between the lines, I think Mr Couling is envisaging a scenario in which managed migration never happens, or at least gets kicked so far down the road there’ll only be…like…a couple of thousand people left! I can see certain benefits from the government’s point of view in letting it just roll out as people’s circumstances change , as against huge risks involved in trying to move people over. Just me speculating.
... like nobody getting any transitional protection, for example? They would love that.
But on the other hand, “managed migration” is quite misleading because it sounds as though they are helping people to go from one benefit to another. In housing terms it’s the difference between rehousing somebody and just evicting them. “Managed migration, my *rse,” as Jim Royle would put it.
And now, according to the latest Twitter stuff popping up on the Rightsnet front page, Nov 2020 isn’t a delay at all, it’s what they decided at the time of the budget changes.
Decided and just didn’t tell anyone?
Perhaps Neil Couling is just confirmed the timetable from leaked documents to the BBC in October.
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Budget policy costings (page 9) published two weeks later still had a September 2020 date.
I recently made a FoI request for information regarding the financial impact of the delay. It was refused for a second time today. I’m wondering if anyone thinks there is any point in attempting to take this further?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/budget_2018_universal_credit_rol