Stop scaremongering over universal credit | Letters

DWP secretary David Gauke leaving No 10 earlier this month. ‘We have support in place for those who need extra help,’ he writes.Universal credit is the greatest modernisation of the welfare system in a generation – and it is helping people improve their lives through work.Recently it was incorrectly reported on Twitter and then in the Guardian that a single mother would be without any financial support over Christmas while she moved on to universal credit (Behind the story that