Download or read book After the Virus written by Hilary Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the deep roots of the UK's lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.
Download or read book Universal credit written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This white paper sets out the Government's plans to introduce legislation to reform the welfare system by creating a new universal credit. This universal credit will radically simplify the system to make work pay and combat worklessness and poverty. The consultation document (Cm. 7913, ISBN 9780101791328) spelt out the issues and the consultation responses (Cm. 7971, ISBN 9780101797122), publishing simultaneously with this paper, broadly welcomed the proposals that were put forward. Universal credit is an integrated working-age credit that will provide a basic allowance with additional elements for children, disability, housing and caring. It will support people both in and out of work replacing working tax credit, child tax credit, housing benefit, income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance and income related employment and support allowance. The universal credit will improve financial work incentives by ensuring that support reduction is tapered at a consistent and managed rate. It will also be backed up by a strong system of conditionality. As a simpler system managed by one department it will reduce the scope for costly errors and fraud. The universal credit will not replace: contributory jobseeker's allowance & contributory employment and support allowance which will continue aligned to earnings; disability living allowance; child benefit; and bereavement benefits, statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, maternity allowance and industrial injuries disablement benefit
Download or read book Universal credit written by Social Security Advisory Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2011, the Department for Work and Pensions commissioned the Social Security Advisory Committee to undertake an independent review of passported benefits and how they link with Universal Credit. Passported benefits were defined as those additional benefits to which working-age claimants on certain means-tested benefits and tax credits are automatically entitled. The SSAC broadly considered them in four groups: education, health, utilities and access to justice. They did not consider Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit, and referred only briefly to benefits within the Social Fund. The SSAC found that all passported benefits fulfill important needs, are highly valued by those who receive them and make significant social contributions. Options for the future should not undermine policy objectives and it is unlikely that one approach will suit all passported benefits. Review respondents identified a tension between three key factors: reducing complexity, making work pay while maintaining a range of policy objectives and keeping costs neutral. One of the simplest solutions offered was extending eligibility for passported benefits to everyone receiving UC. This option, though, would not meet the constraint of cost-neutrality. Alternatively income thresholds within UC could be imposed, below which claimants are automatically entitled to receive certain passported benefits. To alleviate the cliff-edge it would also be possible to: impose an earnings disregard, allow the benefit to run-on for a period of time after the cut-off point has been reached, withdraw the benefit in a stepped taper. The Coalition Government recognises the opportunities and challenges but notes that there has already been a considerable amount of work undertaken and believes there is scope to deliver
Download or read book Universal Credit Implementation written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universal Credit pilots (Pathfinders) will begin in the north west of England in April 2013 and full national roll-out is due to start in October 2013. The Government has designed a welfare system which should help ease the transition from benefits to work, but significant concerns remain about the potential impact of the changes on some of the most vulnerable benefit claimants, especially the online claims system and the proposed single monthly payment. The Government needs to reflect on its ambitious implementation timetable. Under Universal Credit, payments to cover the costs of rent will go to the benefit claimant, rather than direct to the landlord. This is a major change and the Committee therefore recommends that, during the initial phases of implementation, claimants who currently have their housing costs paid to their landlord should have the option to continue with this arrangement. The Committee also notes that it has not yet received sufficient evidence to satisfy itself that the Government will achieve its stated aim of ensuring more generous support for the disabled. The Government plans to calculate monthly Universal Credit payments by using information taken from data feeds from HMRC's new Real Time Information (RTI) system though there are concerns about that programme. The Committee, further, recognises that there is likely to be a significant increased demand for advice services during the four-year transition to Universal Credit. The report also comments on closely-related policy areas, including: the conditionality and sanctions regime; passported benefits; localisation of council tax support; localisation of the Social Fund
Download or read book White paper on universal credit written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white paper published as Cm. 7957 (ISBN 9780101795722)
Download or read book National Audit Office Universal Credit Early Progress HC 621 written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report concludes that the Department for Work and Pensions has not achieved value for money in its early implementation of Universal Credit. The Department was overly ambitious in both the timetable and scope of the programme, took risks to try to meet the short timescale and used a new project management approach which it had never before used on a programme of this size and complexity. It was unable to explain how it originally decided on its ambitious plans or evaluated their feasibility. Nor did it have any adequate measures of progress. Over 70 per cent of the £425 million spent to date has been on IT systems, and £34 million of its new IT systems has been written off. The existing systems offer limited functionality - the current IT system lacks a component to identify potentially fraudulent claims so that the Department has to rely on multiple manual checks on claims and payments. Problems with the IT system have delayed national roll-out of the programme, which will reduce the expected benefits of reform and - if the 2017 completion date remains - increase risks by requiring the rapid migration of a large volume of claimants. The source of many problems has been the absence of a detailed view of how Universal Credit is meant to work. In addition, poor control and decision-making undermined confidence in the programme and contributed to a lack of progress. The Department has particularly lacked IT expertise and experienced frequent changes in senior management.
Download or read book The Draft Universal Credit Regulations 2013 the Benefit Cap Housing Benefit Regulations 2012 SI 2012 2994 the Draft Universal Credit Personal Independence Payment Jobseeker s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance Claims and Payments Regulations 2013 written by Social Security Advisory Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Advisory Committee undertook a public consultation exercise as part of their review of universal credit and related regulations and reported that the majority of respondents were broadly supportive of the Government's ambitions to simplify the benefits system. The Committee made 36 recommendations across six broad themes: overarching issues; self employment; housing; the benefit cap; conditionality and sanctions; and claims and payments. The Government brings forward regulations which address a number of the Committee's concerns and make improvements to the way in which universal credit will operate. These include the detailed arrangements for self-employed people, provisions to pay housing cost support for those living in supported exempt accommodation outside of universal credit, and provisions to provide alternative payment arrangements to support claimants as they move to universal credit. The Government also accepts the Committee's recommendations to monitor and evaluate the impact of the implementation of universal credit. The Department is also assembling an export advisory group to help with the evaluation of universal credit
Download or read book HC 601 Universal Credit Progress Update written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We acknowledge that Universal Credit has stabilised and made progress since the previous Committee of Public Accounts first reported on the programme in 2013. However, there remains a long way to go. Implementation of Universal Credit so far has focussed mainly on the simplest cases and the Department for Work & Pensions has again delayed the programme. The completion date for the roll-out of its new digital service is six months later compared to when we looked at the programme only a year ago, and the Department now expects that Universal Credit will be fully operational in March 2021. The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that there will be a further six-month delay beyond the Department's latest planned end-date. We remain disappointed by the persistent lack of clarity and evasive responses by the Department to our inquiries, particularly about the extent and impact of delays. The Department's response to the previous Committee's recommendations in the February 2015 report Universal Credit: progress update do not convince us that it is committed to improving transparency about the programme's progress.
Download or read book Universal Credit Implementation Monitoring DWP s Performance in 1012 13 HC 1209 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There remains worrying uncertainty about the new Universal Credit (UC) IT system. This includes how it will work, how much it will cost, and who will develop it. National roll-out of UC was due to begin in October 2013. But problems with IT systems meant that major changes to the implementation timetable were made in July and then again in December 2013. Currently, UC claims are still limited to 10 Pathfinder Jobcentres. New claims are not expected to be extended to the whole of Great Britain until 2016; and the bulk of existing claimants will not move over to UC until 2016-17. Only 4,280 people were claiming Universal Credit by December 2013 and the majority of these claims were of the simplest nature. By comparison, in the same month, 1.22 million people were claiming Jobseekers Allowance. The DWP is developing a new 'end-state solution' for UC IT which will eventually replace the IT system currently in use in the UC Pathfinders. This is costing £25-32 million to develop up to November 2014, with no indication of how much more it will cost in the long-term. The Government has hampered the Committee's scrutiny of UC implementation by not providing accurate, timely and detailed information. And there is a lack of detail on how support for vulnerable people being provided in partnership with local authorities, housing providers and the voluntary sector will operate. Delays to UC implementation mean that local authorities will now administer housing benefit for much longer than anticipated.
Download or read book Universal Credit What You Need to Know written by Alison Gillies and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universal Credit Pathfinder Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 21st century welfare written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits system as it stands often provides incentives to stay on benefits rather than take on a job. This paper identifies the key failings of the benefits system and outlines the objectives the Government believes the system should attempt to achieve. The framework being considered looks at the system of state support for the less well off as a whole and is designed to produce positive behavioural effects. The intention is to maximise work incentives while continuing to protect those most in need. This aim is to achieve this through new rules on how much of their earnings people can keep without losing benefit and by withdrawing benefits as earnings rise at a single, reasonable rate. The models being put forward for consultation include: i) a universal credit whereby elements of the current income-related and tax credit systems are combined, bringing out-of-work and in-work support together in a single system and supplement household earnings through credit payments; ii) a single unified taper would retain a set of benefits with a reformed delivery system whereby withdrawal would be through a taper applied to overall benefit eligibility as income increased; and ii) a single working age benefit which would give all working age claimants the same level of replacement income regardless of whether they were jobseekers, lone parents, sick or disabled. The Government is also looking at how to use smart automation to deliver support without the wasteful bureaucratic delays to payment that make the move into work more stressful than necessary
Download or read book Welfare Reform Act 2012 written by Great Britain and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal assent, 8 March 2012. An Act to make provision for universal credit and personal independence payment; to make other provision about social security and tax credits; to make provision about the functions of the registration service, child support maintenance and the use of jobcentres; to establish the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission and otherwise amend the Child Poverty Act 2010. Explanatory notes have been produced to assist in the understanding of this Act and will be available separately
Download or read book Power Politics and Universal Health Care written by Stuart Altman and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for every American who must navigate the US health care system. Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—internationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing stories in the hundred-year saga leading up to the landmark 2010 legislation. Blending political intrigue, policy substance, and good old-fashioned storytelling, this is the first book to place the Obama health plan within a historical perspective. The authors describe the sometimes haphazard, piece-by-piece construction of the nation’s health care system, from the early efforts of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to the later additions of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. In each case, they examine the factors that led to success or failure, often by illuminating little-known political maneuvers that brought about immense shifts in policy or thwarted herculean efforts at reform. The authors look at key moments in health care history: the Hill–Burton Act in 1946, in which one determined poverty lawyer secured the rights of the uninsured poor to get hospital care; the "three-layer cake" strategy of powerful House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills to enact Medicare and Medicaid under Lyndon Johnson in 1965; the odd story of how Medicare catastrophic insurance was passed by Ronald Reagan in 1988 and then repealed because of public anger in 1989; and the fact that the largest and most expensive expansion of Medicare was enacted by George W. Bush in 2003. President Barack Obama is the protagonist in the climactic chapter, learning from the successes and failures chronicled throughout the narrative. The authors relate how, in the midst of a worldwide financial meltdown, Obama overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to accomplish what other presidents had tried and failed to achieve for nearly one hundred years.
Download or read book The Banking Needs of Universal Credit Claimants written by Anna Ellison and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Policy Service Users and Carers written by Clive Sealey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers. While service user and carer involvement has become more and more prominent in social policy over recent years, it is rarely the case that the perspectives of service users and carers goes beyond consultation to truly meaningful involvement and co-production. This book is unique in that it has ten substantive co-produced chapters with service users and carers who have direct lived experiences of social policies. The chapters include lived experiences of direct payments, domestic violence and abuse, looked after children, being a foster carer, receiving long term health and social care, welfare to work, mental health, the transition to leaving care and being a carer. The ground-breaking textbook draws on these lived experiences to highlight key lessons that are relevant to social policy, and will provide an impetus towards changes to make such polices better support service users and carers. We hope that this book will inspire academics, policy makers, students and practitioners but, most importantly, it will encourage service users and carers to come forward with their own narratives to further shape social policy.
