DWP quietly starts early rollout of universal credit to some ESA claimants, without telling MPs

Jo Churchill, head and shoulders, smiling, in a pink jacket, in front of an old building

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has started telling 500 disabled people on unemployment benefits to move to universal credit, just days after a Conservative minister assured MPs that no claimant would face such a move until September. DWP previously announced that it would begin rolling out universal credit to the remaining Employment and … Read more