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Civil servants' union PCS demanded yesterday that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) renationalise its computer development work after tech firms squandered £140 million on a useless IT system.
A Commons public accounts committee report blasted the Tories' flagship universal credit scheme, which was to utilise the IT system, as a "shocking" failure.
In a strongly worded report, MPs voiced doubts about whether the £425m shake-up of the benefits system can still be finished by 2017.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
