An updated briefing on the UK Government’s Universal Credit (UC) system has been produced by the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT), representing the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church and United Reformed Church (URC).
JPIT says it is ‘concerned that the design of Universal Credit does not sufficiently take into account the lives, skills and resources of the least well off, and as a result will lead to greater debt, poverty and exclusion. We believe it should be paused until these design and implementation flaws are rectified’.
You can download the full briefing, Universal Credit: Increasing hunger by design, from the JPIT website.
