Embargoed until 00:01 hrs, Wednesday November 26th, 2014
Today’s report on Universal Credit Project from the National Audit Office reveals that the Treasury has forced DWP to abandon plans it submitted earlier this year for Universal Credit to start to replace Tax Credits from January 2015.
Today’s NAO report reveals that Treasury has torpedoed
DWP’s plans for Tax Credits to be replaced by Universal Credit
in January 2015
Surprising highlights from the NAO report:
– The start of Universal Credit replacement of Tax Credits from January 2015 has been abandoned. DWP has delayed plans by at least 2 years for the transfer of the majority of tax credits claimants to Universal Credit to 2019. It does not have plans to transfer the remaining 555,000 tax credit and Employment and Support Allowance claimants before 2020.
– DWP admits that up to at least £239m of IT investment has been wasted to date, up from
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