Ellen Clifford: ‘Universal credit is flawed, but what would replace it?’

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The disability activist and co-chair of an inquiry into social security policy will ask claimants how the system can be improved

A new inquiry into the UK social security system launches today but it is not the failings of, say, disability benefit fit-for-work tests, or universal credit that will be its main focus. “What we don’t want to do is take evidence on what the problems are because we’ve been talking about those for many years now; they are well-evidenced,” says disability activist and commission co-chair Ellen Clifford.

 

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If they just got off people's backs. Because let's be honest nobody needs the added stress of their jobcosching. It makes me anxious as opposed to helping me. Plus a few years back they spent double on the admin to apply sanctions than what they saved in misapplied sanctions.

Just drop the bullshit like jobcoaching. It doesn't make a blind bit of difference to most people's chances of getting a job sitting having a conversation with some random jobcentre employee.

A new government hopefully

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