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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith cravenly tried to bury his latest blunder during attacks on welfare yesterday under cover of the Chancellor's autumn statement.
As George Osborne prepared to take to his feet in the Commons, Mr Duncan Smith admitted that an estimated 700,000 disability benefit claimants will not be transferred to the new universal credit before 2017.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said that those on employment and support allowance will continue to receive the current service and, if appropriate, will be helped back to work by job centres.
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