Huge Deductions Being Taken from Universal Credit Leaving Claimants Destitute

Benefit claimants are being driven into destitution after facing large unexpected deductions from their Universal Credit payments, the government has been warned. Frank Field MP Chair of the DWP Select Committee has been speaking out in the iPaper. Under UC, large deductions can be taken from peoples benefits without any warning. Claimants getting a payment of £300 can have £200 deducted in the example Frank Field MP gives, thus pushing claimants into rent arrears. Universal Credit is driving people to use food banks and driving up the homeless figures. 

Fortunately, the DWP is focused on putting new claimants onto UC but leaving existing claimants to migrate later. This has not been widely promoted that this is happening, and some people are breathing a sigh of relief as a result. 

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