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Overall cost of Universal Credit risen by £12 billion
Grauniad are reporting that the overall cost of Iain Duncan Smith’s key welfare scheme appears to have risen by £3bn to £15.8bn in two years, according to an official report that shows several other significant government programmes are also in danger of collapsing.
Universal credit, the troubled programme that plans to roll six welfare benefits into one payment, has also suffered a further year’s delay and will not be fully implemented until 2020.
The figures are disclosed in a Major Projects Authority report.
So we have a £12b overspend on the implementation of UC and the government say that they want to make £12b of savings from the social security bill. I’m sure that this is just a happy coincidence…....
Note also the statement lower down the story that “Duncan Smith’s programme to replace disability living allowance with a new personal independence payment has also been given an “amber/red” rating.
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