Universal Credit is '£600m under budget' and will be offered in all UK job centres by 2016, claims Iain Duncan Smith

Sooraj Shah
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Work and pensions secretary claims that DWP is spending £1.8bn on the troubled scheme, rather than the expected £2.4bn

Universal Credit, the scheme designed to merge six different types of benefits into a single monthly payment, is "£600m under budget" and is on course to be offered to all UK job centres by 2016, a...

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