Untangling the lies told about universal credit

Goods at a food bank. ‘The DWP must now start engaging with the evidence of the impact of welfare reform on pushing people into poverty,’ says Raji Hunjan. Photograph: PAAditya Chakrabortty’s article (The government uses your money to gaslight poor people, 6 November) revealed the depth that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will go to defend its failing flagship universal credit programme, which has pushed thousands of people into poverty. It is important people are a