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Evidence session with Amber Rudd and Neil Couling

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Yesterday’s Work and Pensions Committee evidence session with Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd and Neil Couling, Director General of the Universal Credit Programme:

https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/03e93e48-f153-4430-a983-049bd3243b40

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At 16:52 Donna Ward claims the whole system is overall £2 billion more generous than legacy beenfits. The one scenario you can be better off is support group UC with no previous SDP - £30 a week more generous. That would need 1.3 million people in that set for it to total £2 billion a year, even before you offset anyone who’s worse off.

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The taper improves things for some with an income. Also, they include higher take-up of entitlements, which is the real reason it’s more generous overall. It would otherwise be less generous.

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According to Amber Rudd and Neil Couling, DWP will pay compensation if bad advice from DWP leads to someone migrating to UC in error and losing out -

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/03e93e48-f153-4430-a983-049bd3243b40?in=17:51:24&out=17:52:05

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Daphne - 12 March 2019 02:54 PM

According to Amber Rudd and Neil Couling, DWP will pay compensation if bad advice from DWP leads to someone migrating to UC in error and losing out -

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/03e93e48-f153-4430-a983-049bd3243b40?in=17:51:24&out=17:52:05

So that’s every WCA failure letter then.

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Minutes of the oral evidence session are now available from parliament.uk

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