DWP abandons legal battle over ‘perverse’ Universal Credit fault
This is a surprise – the Department for Work and Pensions has actually seen the light and done the right thing!
The decision paves the way for 85,000 benefit claimants to demand reimbursement as the fault in Universal Credit means they may have been left £500 per year worse off.
If you’re one of those affected, get your demand in now.
The Department for Work and Pensions has abandoned its lengthy legal battle to avoid fixing a “perverse” design feature in universal credit that has left thousands of working claimants hundreds of pounds a year out of pocket.
The minister for welfare delivery, Will Quince, told MPs he accepted that the DWP must correct the feature, which has resulted in serious budgeting problems for some claimants who are paid at the end of the month.
The issue currently affects claimants whose wages are paid two days earlier than usual when the month ends on a weekend or bank holiday. The system assumes they have been paid twice in a single universal credit assessment period, and none in the next, meaning their benefit payments fluctuate wildly.
Source: DWP abandons legal battle against universal credit claimants | Society | The Guardian
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I’ve always wondered about how many millions have been wasted on DWP court cases and how many of the lawyers are MPs or relatives of MPs.
Government money is not for the poor but seen as “free cash” for those in power who dive snout first into that trough and gobble as much as they can !