A new report has labelled Universal Credit "fundamentally flawed" and said the system needs a major overhaul. A total of 21 changes are being proposed in the report from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in a radical shake-up of benefits from the Department for Work and pensions (DWP).
This includes an increase to payments and work allowances, an end to sanctions, and removing the Minimum Income Floor applied to self-employed claimants. Since the coronavirus pandemic began the number of people claiming Universal Credit has soared by around 90 per cent to 5.6 million. Four years ago the TUC demanded Universal Credit be scrapped altogether.
They wanted it to be replaced with a new system that ends poverty, helps with the additional costs of childcare, disability and housing, and allows people to work the hours that fit their family circumstances, BirminghamLive reports.
