UC will begin in Oct 2013 !

Richie-from-the-Boro

.. .. or will it .. ..

- its clear the business plan has changed
- now the DWP say it will “concentrate on the principle deliverables to October 2013”
- the DWP business plan is here

The original roadmap looked like this :

nogginthenog

Welfare reform plans '​collapsing in chaos'​, says Labour.
The government'​s flagship welfare reform policy is "​collapsing into chaos"​, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne has said.

Under current plans, income-related jobseeker'​s allowance, housing benefit, child tax credit, working tax credit, income support and income-related employment support allowance are all being merged into one payment: the universal credit.

At work and pensions questions in the Commons on 25 June 2012, Mr Byrne alleged that the introduction of the universal credit was running late and over budget, and the prime minister'​s recent speech on welfare reform was designed to deflect attention from this.

He explained: "​The minister for unemployment said to the House that all out-of-work benefits were supposed to be treated as universal benefit applications from October 2013. The DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] newsletter from last month says that now won'​t happen until mid-2014, nine months late."​

He said the project had been expected to cost £​2bn, but parliamentary answers now suggest that "​it is £​100m over budget"​.

"​Universal benefit is not on time, and it'​s not on budget, and the secretary of state doesn'​t know what'​s going on in his own department,"​ Mr Byrne said.

"​So is it any surprise that the prime minister had to announce another revolution in welfare reform this morning, because the last one appears to be collapsing into chaos?"​

sunnyone

Im pleased that it dosnt affect us, I will watch the chaos unfold!

Parva

Crikey! I'm worried about my status but noggin must surely be breaking rules with that link! I'm all for maximising potential earnings and savings but it's a bit cheeky advertising a paid-for service surely? If I thought I would profit then I might have even gone for it if it weren't advertised here, it's just wrong.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Update on the delivery reality of the above Nov 2012

The national launch, supposed to happen in October next year, will now instead only be a couple of small regional projects, not a national roll-out. Its already a year behind schedule regardless of assurances by IDS and others who are hypnotised by the limitless promise that IT always asserts but hardly ever delivers. The project is already £100 Mi££ion adrift, a further £300 mi££ion has been dispersed into the old child support payments system, so a UC development budget of only £200 mi££ion is already £500 mi££on behind.

The flagship paperless programme is heading for the rocks, and we haven't even started PIP yet, it's looking like another catastrophic waste of taxpayers money aka the David Blunkett inspired ID card scheme [no I didn't get my £30 quid back] is going to be yet one more 'pigs ear'

- UC will potentially affect 19 million people in the UK
- the last Government wasted £26 bi££ion in screwed up IT projects
- - the failed ID card scheme / the failed NHS paperless system etc

Invalidation

Curiously I posted about this and a link about it yesterday but the mods, in their infinite wisdom decided to move it, somewhere no one would see it
Aint life strange

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