![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/list-of-21-universal-credit-changes-proposed-to-dwp-that-would-see-benefits-rise/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3_Serious-millennial-black-married-couple-reading-documents-at-laptop-together.jpg&description=Universal Credit is long overdue a shake-up, according to the Trade Union Congress, because the benefit process is too tough on claimants and doesn't pay enoughThe TUC wants to see Universal Credit completely changedUniversal Credit is "fundamentally flawed" according to a new report from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) - which says the benefit needs a major overhaul. Some 21 changes have been put forward in a revolutionary shake-up of benefits for the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ). The changes include more help for disabled and vulnerable claimants and an overall increase in payments for claimants that work. However, the ideas are just suggestions and the DWP does not have to take them up. The TUC said it wanted to see an increase to payments and work allowances. The union body also wants an end to sanctions and the removal of the Minimum Income Floor applied to self-employed claimants. Universal Credit is due a major shake-up, experts say ( Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Since the coronavirus pandemic began the number of people claiming Universal Credit has soared by astound 90% to 5.6 million. Four years ago the TUC demanded that Universal Credit be scrapped altogether. The TUC wanted it to be replaced with a new system that ends poverty, helps with the additional costs of childcare, disability and housing, and allows people to work the hours that fit their family circumstances. The TUC said: "Achieving these principles requires many more changes to our current social security system than simply replacing Universal Credit. "In particular, it is difficult to fully achieve these aims within a predominantly means-tested system of social security. Means-tested benefits are a major part of the social security system in the UK. "Around 60% of all working-age benefits are now means tested." The report also highlights issues with switching all existing legacy benefit claimants over to Universal Credit, which has recently started up ag){kind=link}
Universal Credit is long overdue a shake-up, according to the Trade Union Congress, because the benefit process is too tough on claimants and doesn’t pay enough
Universal Credit is “fundamentally flawed” according to a new report from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) – which says the benefit needs a major overhaul.
Some 21 changes have been put forward in a revolutionary shake-up of benefits for the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ).
The changes include more help for disabled and vulnerable claimants and an overall increase in payments for claimants that work.
However, the ideas are just suggestions and the DWP does not have to take them up. The TUC said it wanted to see an increase to payments and work allowances.