Tag Archives: Neil Couling

BBC Waits 5 Months to Report £500 Million Universal Credit Delay

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Major UK news outlets have been reporting how the planned roll-out of Universal Credit has been delayed again, with it now hoped to be complete by some point in 2024. This has come out after the BBC revealed that during the filming of a documentary on the DWP, Director of Universal Credit Neil Couling decided to push the roll-out back

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DWP Planning Covert Ad Campaign with Metro & BBC

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It has emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) plan to start a covert campaign to tackle “misinformation” about Universal Credit. A memo first revealed by the Guardian, talks of an unbranded wraparound advert on the Metro Newspaper and a BBC Two documentary they helped make. It is a propaganda campaign North Korea would be proud of due

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Universal Credit – Lies and Propaganda

DWP Lies and Propaganda, Deflection script

The Department for Work and Pension (DWP) is using lies in social media ads to promote Universal Credit Just a quick aside from my usual articles as I’m seeing more and more promoted posts from the Department of Work and Pensions about Universal Credit. This fact alone is irresponsible because every working-age benefit claimant will eventually be transferred to Universal

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Universal Credit underpayments double those of Jobseekers Allowance

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 have uncovered statistics that show that more claimants are being underpaid on Universal Credit – UC in comparison to Jobseekers Allowance – JSA. What is important is that the number of claimants on Jobseekers is far larger than those on Universal Credit   Statistics on the Government’s Stat-Xplore website show that in the 2017/2018 tax year more money was underpaid

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