Universal Credit: Mps To Debate Rollout Amid Labour Pause Call

mikey4444 | 08:23 Wed 18th Oct 2017 | News

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41659504

This should be worth keeping an eye on today... Unless she has a last-minute change of heart and listens to her own back-benchers, and others, May is faced with losing this debate,

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Well 'blacking Up' And Giving Her A Big Nose, Got Channel 4 The Result It Wanted To Get, So Why Are Some Complaining?

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Cloverjo

Emmy, I don't know if that would solve the problem. When I was a young and poor single mother I was lucky to find a decent house and landlord. He wasn't interested in Housing Benefit. He just wanted the rent paid, wherever it came from.

When HB was paid directly to landlords, the dodgy ones would raise the rent knowing it would be paid anyway.

emmie

ymb

sorry to hear you have had so much trouble, i do see your point.

Gromit

Universal Credit was introduced to save money, and it is, - by not paying people for 6 weeks. The DWP can say they are UC is working by pointing to the 'savings' it is bringing.
But that is a con. Anyone can save money by not paying people. They trumpet UC as a great success when a prcess that used to take 1 week, now takes 6 weeks.

emmie

i feel sorry for those caught up in this mess.

mikey4444

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"Universal Credit helpline charges scrapped"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41659504

Some progress at least

Ken4155

Mikey; i told you that at 10;07:-/

mikey4444

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Indeed you did Ken...I have been out shopping !

The single most effective change that the Government could make to UC, is to pay rent direct to landlords, just as they always did.

Its obvious that this current Tory regime is in exactly the same state that it was, in the last few months of John Major's regime....running around like headless chickens, fire-fighting problems of its own making, rather than getting on with governing.

It will be interesting to see if May survives this "Poll-Tax" moment.

maggiebee

Interesting it's being debated now that it's allegedly being rolled out in England. We already have it in Scotland and nobody seems to give a monkeys!

mikey4444

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Maggie....forgive me if I am wrong here but didn't the Tories roll-out the Poll Tax in Scotland first, before the rest of the UK ?

dannyk13

Mikey
//The single most effective change that the Government could make to UC, is to pay rent direct to landlords, just as they always did.//
As mentioned in a previous post, the last time this happened landlords were putting up rents in the knowledge that they would keep getting paid by the government.Not very practical.

mikey4444

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For those that are interested, this debate is being shown live on the BBC right now ::::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-parliaments-41637032

maggiebee

Yes mikey, they did introduce the Poll Tax in Scotland before the rest of the UK. Seems us Scots are just here to experiment on.

youngmafbog

You have a smaller populous.

It's always going to be you or the Welsh.

The 55p a minute was not entirely truthful reporting BTW. Most paid nothing.

mikey4444

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YMB....but some did pay and there has been a u-turn by the Government, which I am sure, like me, you support.

youngmafbog

Yes, I do welcome it. Just pointing out that it was a very small portion of people who did and it was more to do with your telephone billing arrangements.

Gromit