How Universal Credit advance payments can force struggling people into debt
Claimants have to wait six weeks or more for the new “streamlined” benefit. Any help comes at a price.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Claimants have to wait six weeks or more for the new “streamlined” benefit. Any help comes at a price.
By Kayley Hignell