Universal Credit uptake slows to lowest since [its] infancy

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240226786/Universal-Credit-uptake-slows-to-lowest-since-infancy

‘In May 2014, only 540 people started claiming benefits through the Universal Credit’

‘On 23rd June, Iain Duncan Smith said in the House of Commons that ‘there are, at the moment, around 11,000 people making those claims on universal credit’. But three weeks later the Department for Work and Pensions published monthly claimant figures for Universal Credit, which said 5,880 people were claiming…’

His 11,000 figure may (MAY, if we are being generous but the real figure appears to be just 8500) be the total who have gone through the system between April 2013 and May 2014 including those who have ended their claims.

His use of the present tense indicates however that he’s fibbing. Again.