7 July 2017

Delivering on Universal Credit - Citizens Advice report calls for pause in Universal Credit rollout

Citizens Advice have published a report calling for the rollout of Universal Credit to be paused while issues leading to financial problems for claimants are fixed.

The report makes several recommendations:

Reduce how long people have to wait for their first payment

Improve the support available to people so they can make ends meet

Citizens Advice press release is available here

The report summary, Fixing Universal Credit, and the full report, Delivering on Universal Credit, can be found on the Citizens Advice website.