Mum’s court challenge against DWP demand for UC claimants to go into childcare debt
Why should the Department for Work and Pensions demand that parents on Universal Credit go into debt over childcare costs?
Current rules say parents can get up to £646 per month for each child under 16, funding 85 per cent of their care costs – but they must pay those costs up-front and claim them back later, putting them in debt.
Some end up thousands of pounds in the red.
The DWP says this is to prevent fraud – but there are ways to do this that don’t push people into debt.
Just off the top of This Writer’s head: what’s wrong with having a letter from the provider, saying exactly what the costs will be in advance? That proof is as good as anything else.
The rule may be unlawful, discriminatory, and in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (which I should remind readers is nothing to do with the EU and therefore is something by which they UK must still abide).
Now, single mum Nichola Salvato is demanding a judicial review of the DWP’s dodgy rule.
She also happens to be a professional benefits advisor and is supported by Save the Children – so it seems likely that she knows her facts.
But will a ruling against the DWP do any good? Tories aren’t very good at following laws they don’t like – and the general election handed them far too much power to do anything they feel like.
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Great points. As with many other areas of life, dictated by so called intellectuals, the one missing magic ingredient to their biased decisions is a very simple one….common sense. Common sense is not taught in universities and the like it is the learnings of living a normal life and having to suffer fools gladly learning lifes lessons. This has always been the Cons weakness with all their so called thinking and hard nosed decisions.