Report: changed benefit may ‘leave claimants worse off’

by Paul Wilkinson

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 @ 12:50

FLAWS in the new Universal Credit system could trap benefit claimants in poverty, a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation think tank suggests.

The report, Implementing Universal Credit, accepts that the new credit, which will replace a range of existing benefits from next autumn, is sound "in principle", but says that implementing it could "unintentionally" leave some claimants worse off.

The report's analysis declares that it would encourage people to take jobs ...

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