{"id":5665,"date":"2018-12-20T12:08:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/universal-credit-is-the-governments-benefit-system-working\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:08:27","slug":"universal-credit-is-the-governments-benefit-system-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/universal-credit-is-the-governments-benefit-system-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal credit: Is the government&#8217;s benefit system working?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The government&#8217;s overhaul of the welfare system to create one universal benefit has not had an easy roll out.<\/p>\n<p>The aim was to create a smoother benefits system that encourages people to stay in work. But it&#8217;s years behind schedule, linked to a rise in food bank use and rent arrears, and critics claim it might make millions poorer. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s big, it&#8217;s confusing and it&#8217;s hard to know from the noise what the actual problems are.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Buchanan, who&#8217;s spoken to universal credit claimants across the country, explains.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-45971686\" class=\"story-body__link\">Universal Credit: Will benefit changes affect you?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-46628247\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s overhaul of the welfare system to create one universal benefit has not had an easy roll out. The aim was to create a smoother benefits system that encourages people to stay in work. But it&#8217;s years behind schedule, linked to a rise in food bank use and rent arrears, and critics claim it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}