Panorama Last Evening

[emmie]

did anyone watch in regards Universal Credit. It was a rather eye opening piece where some people have been left without any back up, seems the
Universal Credit programme still needs a lot of work.

[emmie]

surprising that no one seems to have watched this.

[Mamyalynne]

I watched it, it was rushed in in some areas - Flintshire for example and the hitches cause long lasting knock on effects.

No one simple reason for them, a combination of things as we saw, but some very sad results.

[emmie]

some sad and bad results, i wonder if that is what my assessment is for, to put me on Universal Credit, if so it;s not fit for purpose yet.

[pastafreak]

I watched. What some are being put through is both heart breaking and almost immoral.

[emmie]

is it right that the idea is to pay housing benefit direct to the tenant, i didn't know if that was what was the direct problem.

[Mamyalynne]

That has been a big art of the problem , yes - it's nowhere near as easy for people to get their benefit paid direct to their landlord.

As some stated in the programme that's what would have helped them greatly.

[emmie]

some like the guy with the baby was horrible, in so far as his story was truly awful. I don't like this idea of paying the monies direct to the tenant, that smacks of idiocy.

[emmie]

because like the poor guy who had accrued 4,000 grand debt, and was about to be evicted, there seemed such a sense of outrage that someone had not intervened on his behalf.

[Peter Pedant]

the idea is to pay direct to the tenant and he can develop budgeting skills
about 50% havent before they are evicted for arrears.

when you transfer from one benefit to the other - you dont get paid for 2 months and this is not made up - so you start off with 2 months arrears and debts - -

[emmie]

not a good system for those who aren't used to budgeting.