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Latest on UC from Stephen Crabb
Stephen Crabb in front of the Work and Pensions Committee yesterday -
- defended the government’s universal credit policy, telling MPs he rejected criticisms that it no longer served its original purpose of making people better off in work than on benefits
- said he had spent the past six weeks “kicking the tyres and looking under the bonnet” of UC and was confident that the programme should roll out as planned.
- said “What I can see is that we have a very clear policy. It would be wrong to [introduce] change for change’s sake”
- said that conditionality had a role to play to encourage people to progress in work but that the the conditionality regime for working claimants has to be applied sensitively by work coaches. “It [conditionality] has to be delivered carefully in a smart way and that is a change.”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/11/universal-credit-is-working-welfare-secretary-insists