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THE government's justification for introducing universal credit (UC) does not offset its “disproportionate” impact on disabled people losing top-up payments, the High Court heard yesterday.
The case is being brought on behalf of two “severely disabled” men who both live alone without carers who found themselves £178 a month out of pocket after being forced to migrate from previous “legacy” benefits to UC when they moved from one local authority area to another.
Their lawyer Zoe Leventhal said that UC treated “natural migrants” — people forced onto UC after a change in circumstances — differently from “managed migrants,” who will have to move to UC from July 2019.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
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