Universal credit

• MPs to investigate link between Universal Credit and abuse

  The Work and Pensions Committee today announced they will be holding a one-off evidence session on the relationship between Universal Credit and domestic abuse.

  

• Research warns of 'design flaw' in Universal Credit

  A ‘design flaw’ in Universal Credit is leaving self-employed workers at a financial disadvantage, new research has warned today.

  

• Over 100,000 children to lose free school meals under reforms

  One in eight children who would have qualified for free school meals under the old system will become ineligible under universal credit.

  

• Free school meals: What do the changes mean for families?

  Which children should be receiving a free hot meal at school and who should pay for it? Mark Whitehead reports.

  

• Digital challenge of Universal Credit

  The introduction of Universal Credit (UC), which pulls your benefits into one place, may seem eminently sensible but there seems one major caveat: it relies on a level of digital literacy.

  

• Reforms to free school meals would leave children hungry, warn union

  A leading union has dismissed government proposed reforms to free school meal entitlement as 'a cut disguised as a kindness.'

  

• ‘Under pressure’ HMRC threatens welfare claimants, MPs warn

  MPs have warned HMRC’s attempts at modernising amount to a ‘precarious high-wire act’ that threatens welfare claimants.

  

• What is the future for Universal Credit?

• Councils forced to commit ‘valuable resources’ to cope with UC roll out

  Local authorities are being forced to commit ‘valuable resources’ to tackling the effects of Universal Credit (UC), Labour says.

  

• Million children to lose free school meals under Universal Credit

  One million children living in poverty in England will miss out on free school meals under Universal Credit (UC) proposals, a children’s charity has warned.