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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
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
