[user104658]

Going forward, at least people aren't going f to have to struggle by on nothing or be forced to borrow externally - they can get a full month's payment within 5 days of application as an "emergency loan". Which is obviously still ridiculous... You start out on UC already in debt and paying a bit back on each payment for the whole first 12 months. For people with kids on very low or no income, UC could easily be £1200 a month, so that's £100 a month being taken out right from the start.

But yeah... Still better than the stance of "You get nothing for 6 weeks and you'll just have to deal wiv it" which was insane.

However, it simply shouldn't have been rolled out until they could figure out how to implement a seamless transition. Full stop. It can't be THAT hard, surely??