The problems with Universal Credit can’t be fixed by loans or advances.

PRESS RELEASE: UC APPG responds to childcare announcement

From the APPG I have the news that people on Universal Credit will be able to get a loan or advance to pay for their child care.  Whenever someone gets a loan or an advance they have to pay it back, usually by deductions from their benefits.  That means that, whatever their benefit entitlement may be, in the future they will get less than that entitlement.

I apologise for stating something that should be painfully obvious to anyone after a moment’s thought.  (‘Painfully’ was not the first adjective that sprang to mind.  I thought it better to moderate my language for public consumption.)

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