This Is How You Fix Universal Credit, Chancellor

Universal Credit is back in the headlines after Budget 2017, following years of failings, cost increases, delays and criticisms. The Conservative government has finally begun to row back on some of the extremes of the failing system; as part of his Budget Chancellor Phillip Hammond promised to end the one-week wait before someone is allowed to claim the benefit, reversing one of George Osborne’s many assaults on the UK’s poorest. He also made a small concession to helping with rent a