Claim that
around
2.8m low
income
households
do better
off.
Average gain- £29 perweek.
Replace 6 benefits inc
job seekers allowance
and housing benefits with
one streamlined benefit.
Will lift around 900,000 out of
poverty, including more than
350,000 children and 550,000
working age adults.
By October 2017, approx
12-13m tax credit and benefit
claims will be transformed in to
eight million universal credit
payments.
Gov will invest and additional
£300m into child careon top of
the already £2bn spent.
Removing the hours rule will
mean that around 80,000 more
families with children will benefit
from childcare support.
Successes of UC
Simpler. -
more people
understand
the system
with one
benefit,
majority
online and
easily
accessable.
300,000+
found work
and
financial
gains.
900,000 out
of poverty =
save more
money
Failures of UC
Research from an
independent thinktank
warned that UC will push
significant number of
households into debt and
suggests that instead of
boosting individuals financial
resilience, it will worsen their
financial circumstance
Both opposition and backbench coalition
MPs voiced concerned over the number of
areas where details remain unsolved
Concerns over the complex computing
system.
David Cameron attempted to reshuffle Duncan
Smith in Sept '12 over cost of the proposal but
secretary of state wanted to remain
Unease over lack of clarity how how self employed workers file monthly earnings
returns, worry over a proposal to force part time workers to increase hours or
face sanctions, how council tax credit and free school meals will fit in
Doubt over gov expectation
that 80% of claimants will
claim online- majority people
in social housing don't have
internet and courses are
losing funding.
Benefit Cap
Of £26,000 will
mean no family
on benefits will
earn more than
the average
salary of a
working family.
67,000 households
will be affected by
the cap
Will provide savings of
£290m in2013/14 and
£330m in 2014/15
Social Sector size crisis
will stop the practice of the state
paying for rooms that are not
being used. Help tackle shortage
(5m people are waiting for social
housing)
In London 70,000
households are getting
housing benefit for extra
bedrooms they do not need.
costing the taxpayer 80m a
year.
Disability
Living
allowance
replacing DLA with PIP and
introducing a new face to face
assessment and regular
interviews.
The proportion of people who will
receive both components at the
highest rate will go up in PIP- 20%
compared to 16% and so will
proportion of people on one
component- 56% compared to 55%.
Cont to spend over 40bn a
year on disabled people and
their services. Overall, number
claiming on DLA has grown by
more than 2m since it was
introduced in 1992- 1.1m to
3.2