MPs suggest six-week wait for first benefit payment could be reduced to a month despite May’s insistence system is workingThe government appears to be edging closer to a U-turn on the universal credit benefits system,with Conservative backbench critics of the policysaying they had been assured the government was listening to their concerns.In what would mark a meaningful climbdown, Tory MPs enjoy hinted that the six-week wait for the benefit to be first paid could be reduced to a month despite Theresa May’s insistence on Wednesday that “it is a system that is working”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk