Private job providers can claim public money when jobseekers find work. But they need their payslips to do so, and some resort to extreme methods to get them
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As part of the UK government’s latest budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that the £20 weekly universal credit uplift introduced at the start of the pandemic would be extended until September while working tax credit claimants will be afforded the equivalent of a one-off £500 payment. To understand how these changes will impact claimants, we first need to look back at how the system has functioned since the pandemic.
Amid soaring demand after the first lockdown, the “flagship” working-age benefit universal credit received 1.8 million new claims in the five weeks spanning the end of March and beginning of April 2020. Although the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)moved swiftly to process these cases, our research raises major concerns about aspects of that application process and payment levels during that time.