Computer weekly reports on tribunal judgment relating to UC chaos

i think i would be in trouble if i under estimated how long something would take to that extent.

Remember - UC is a brilliant success and completely on time etc etc, and if you don’t agree, the SoS will call rude names on yer!

The most amusing thing about the UC debacle is how DWP insist on describe cobbling legacy benefits back together again Humpty Dumpty style as “one of the most radical redesigns of the welfare system this country has ever seen”. Can’t help feeling the words of the rhyme are prophetic as to the eventual outcome!

stevenmcavoy - 10 September 2015 11:57 AM

i think i would be in trouble if i under estimated how long something would take to that extent.

Indeed, if my ability to measure distances for the purposes of mobility was of a similar standard to DWPs ability to deliver, well, anything, we really would be in trouble.

‘‘Since then, the lifetime costs of the programme have increased from £12.85bn in 2012 to the latest estimate of £15.8bn – although the DWP insists this was due to accounting changes. The Public Accounts Committee last year claimed that hundreds of millions of pounds more of previous IT work could yet be scrapped.’‘

£15.8bn ........ what could that have been spent on?

Attached.

It doesn’t seem to contain any of the information about universal credit; the Secretary of State accepted that some could now be disclosed but for the rest there will be rehearing before a First-tier Tribunal.

thanks Peter - really helpful