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EPISODE · Jan 10, 2019 · 28 MIN

Universal Credit: What's gone wrong and can it be fixed?

from The Briefing Room · host BBC Radio 4

Work and Pensions Secretary, Amber Rudd, this week announced that the next stage of the Universal Credit roll-out is to be scaled back amid concerns about the controversial new benefits system. So what were the origins of the Universal Credit policy and can its flaws be fixed?CONTRIBUTORSRoy Sainsbury - Professor of Social Policy at the University of YorkBaroness Philippa Stroud - former government advisor and CEO of the Legatum InstituteKayley Hignell - Head of Policy for Family, Welfare and Work at Citizens AdviceFran Bennett - Senior Research Fellow at the Department for Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford UniversityTorsten Bell - Director of the Resolution FoundationDeven Ghelani - Founder of Policy in Practice

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