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by adhesive_wombat on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:31PM
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Adversarial as well as means-tested, I should have said. The Universal Credit system is famously cruel in how it is designed.
Not least it is paid in arrears and is designed to take 6 weeks to get the first (backdated) payment, by which time anyone who actually needs it is already likely to be overdrawn to the tune of a month's rent and utilities.
Not least it is paid in arrears and is designed to take 6 weeks to get the first (backdated) payment, by which time anyone who actually needs it is already likely to be overdrawn to the tune of a month's rent and utilities.
https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/10/universal-cre...
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/universal-credit-chaos...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/universal-cr...
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/government-benefit-sa...