Is Iain Duncan Smith Bullshitting About Universal Credit? Of Course He Fucking Is
Iain Duncan Smith has been back to his bull-shitting best with a string of wildly optimistic claims about the wonders of Universal Credit.
Alongside the Secretary of State’s rare appearances in the media this week, the DWP released a gushing report claiming that Universal Credit was already a huge success. This document was based on cherry-picked information from two recent evaluations of the pilot scheme currently running in the North West of England which looked at the impact of the roll out of Universal Credit.
The truth is that there is really nothing useful that can really be learned from how Universal Credit (UC) will work across the board from the tiny amount of data so far available. Only around 50,000 people have claimed UC so far, and there were far fewer than that when these evaluations were carried out. More importantly, they are based on new claims only from…
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