The UK Government has reportedly started drawing up plans to start “slowly” moving the first wave of some 1.7 million claimants from legacy benefits to Universal Credit within weeks.
Mirror Online reports that charities and the UK Government’s welfare watchdog have raised fears over the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to restart the “managed migration” of people still on older style benefits.
The planned migration to Universal Credit was put on hold due to the Coronavirus pandemic and redeployment of DWP staff to other departments to help tackle demand for services, but is now expected to start this Spring.