Universal Credit ‘will need to change to tackle challenge of long-term sickness’
by Vicky Shaw
Apr 14, 2024
3 minutes
Universal Credit (UC) will need to change to meet the growing challenges of an older and sicker population, according to a think tank.
The number of benefit claimants who are out of work because of ill health has almost doubled since UC was first introduced, to reach 2.3 million, the Resolution Foundation said.
Both the benefit system and the country have changed significantly since the introduction of UC in 2013, according to the report.
Whoever wins the next election will be governing a ‘Universal Credit Britain’, with seven million families eventually receiving the new benefit
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