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28/10/2013
Two New Trials Of Universal Credit Get Underway
The next phase of Universal Credit, the government's flagship welfare reform, is being launched today.
A trial of the new credit scheme, which is to replace six means-tested benefits by 2017, has begun in Hammersmith and Fulham.
The national rollout is understood to be progressing slower than the government had expected, with the process having suffered suffered management and computer problems.
It is understood that some 8m households are expected to be on the new credit but to date just a handful of pilot schemes in north west of England have seen an estimated 1,000 claim the new combined benefit.
(MH/CD)
A trial of the new credit scheme, which is to replace six means-tested benefits by 2017, has begun in Hammersmith and Fulham.
The national rollout is understood to be progressing slower than the government had expected, with the process having suffered suffered management and computer problems.
It is understood that some 8m households are expected to be on the new credit but to date just a handful of pilot schemes in north west of England have seen an estimated 1,000 claim the new combined benefit.
(MH/CD)
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