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The UC revolution
Today’s Telegraph. To read, learn and inwardly digest - or is it indigestible? It’s the second article on similar lines in the last few weeks. How does it relate to the actuality so far in UC areas (I’m not in one)? I suppose it’s true to say that taking it slowly hopefully avoids the horrors of the Brown introduction of tax credits (of which I’m sure we all have fond memories!).
Interesting to read that that UC has been ‘enthusiastically’ embraced by welfare practitioners…has it? The current system can be complicated but that does not say UC is uncomplicated and Welfare Practitioners are fully aware of the challenges it brings to individuals who will depend on its support.
A slightly different view from yesterday’s press -
and IDS was 70 minutes late getting to the jobcentre - as one of the comments says, i wonder if his salary was sanctioned…
[ Edited: 11 Feb 2015 at 09:34 am by Daphne ]Just reading the first article… PCs recently reported that morale was at an all time low yet the Telegraph reports it’s rising faster than any other Whitehall department; I bet that’s just Caxton House rather than the JCP network.
And of course, the Telegraph article is not in any way, shape or form related to the election build-up.
HMG’s pro-UC propaganda is rolling out far more quickly than is the benefit itself. Take a look at this:
I don’t know what others think, but ‘bland’, ‘uninformative’ and ‘a whitewash’ are words that come to mind. Where is the bit where ‘We say James isn’t trying hard enough so we sanction the heck out of him’?
Meanwhile, possibly more grounded in reality, here’s a recent piece from Computer Weekly, which hints at problems with RTI and offers ‘more to follow’. Interesting.
‘Universal Credit farce hid tax system gamble’
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2015/02/part-oneuniversal-credit-farce.html