Will universal credit payments arrive in time for Christmas? | Letters

The timing of its roll-out seems especially cruel

We can get a sofa made “in time for Christmas” and broadband companies are offering upgrades to cope with Black Friday (God help us). Yes, the hell that is the commercial run-up to Christmas is upon us.

Nothing demonstrates to me the vast gulf between our government and the most impoverished and excluded members of society than its decision to roll out the new six-weeks-in-arrears universal credit benefit exactly now. Did the dreadful timing (rubbing people’s noses in this exclusion) occur to anybody in authority? (Editorial).

Continue reading... October 29, 2017 at 04:35AM