Universal Credit will start being implemented in Brent from 21 November 2018, we are told. The policy is already widely recognised as a disaster, even by the Tory politicians who voted it through. It massively increases poverty partly because George Osborne ensured it was a vehicle for cutting spending, and partly because the inherent design of the scheme is based on a paradigm of a monthly salary and regular employment that may have been familiar to the designers, but is simply not familiar to lots of people on the receiving end who exist more in the world of in work poverty and the gig economy.
Universal Credit just doesn't really fit the reality of many peoples' live even had the budget for it been more generous. This is also something that those in favour of universal basic incomes should think about.
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