Down the Universal Credit rabbit hole - what happened when East Lothian changed benefits systems

an article in New Statesman by Martin Whitfield, the Labour MP for East Lothian

Please just go and read it for yourself as I can't decide where to start or stop in bringing it to you.

My reaction is that this system is:

• hateful
• hurtful
• harmful
• hazardous, and many other such words but they are not alliterative.

I am so ashamed to admit that I used to work “on the other side of the counter” because people equate me with the minions in the Jobcentres who now do little to help and a great deal to hinder. Do I blame them? No, they are doing as they are told but it's a sad day when helping people is wrong.

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