Universal Credit is a sausage

First catch your legacy benefits.

Skin and gut them; reserve the innards in a large bowl.

Take the new outer skin, called Universal Credit, and then stuff with contents of bowl. Internal coherence is not important here, just appearance. Sweep away any leftover bits.

Claim loudly it is the best sausage there ever was.

Refuse to serve it up, and deny the cooker isn’t working.

Ideal for fry-ups.

[sorry, been off ill, bit feverish, regard this as therapy…..]

That as good as the description of the UC pilot I heard on the radio over the w/e:

“It’s like developing a new formula one car and then testing it by pushing it down the pit lane.”

Andrew, I think that is a brilliant description… I am being driven mad by the constant references to simplification, even by worthy orgs who have not taken the time to actually look at the regs, the transitional arrangements, the systems running in parallel… If you want a bit more therapy, would you be prepared to do a blog post for us?  Could be anonymous, only you and the rest of Rightsnet would be in the know..

For those of us old in the tooth, out of work UC looks very similar to Supplementary Benefit, but without additions or extra payments, in work UC looks like a cxxk up

Supplementary Benefits- those were the days. Additional requirements are now discretionary payments. And pen and paper is now a multimillion pund IT sytem. Progress? Simplification?

Dalibor Warburton - 01 May 2013 09:41 AM

Andrew, I think that is a brilliant description… I am being driven mad by the constant references to simplification, even by worthy orgs who have not taken the time to actually look at the regs, the transitional arrangements, the systems running in parallel… If you want a bit more therapy, would you be prepared to do a blog post for us?  Could be anonymous, only you and the rest of Rightsnet would be in the know..

Hi there - I’m happy to have a go!!! My email is .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you’d like to discuss!