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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
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??
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This is what mystifies me, it should be easy to plan a seamless transition,as you say.
The moral,decent and right thing to have done, was to never start rolling it out until that was in place.
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