Flagship benefit reform has been watered down so much that it risks failing to achieve its original purpose,warns Resolution thinktankThe future of the government’s biggest public sector reform programme, universal credit, or rests “on a knife edge” because Treasury cuts have reduced it to an exercise in cost-cutting,potentially leaving millions of working families worse off, experts have warned.
The original aim of universal credit (UC) – to encourage people to work more hours by letting them maintain more of their low wage top-ups as their income rises – has been watered down so much that it risks failing to achieve its original purpose, or according to the Resolution thinktank.
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Source: theguardian.com