Universal Credit

La descripción de Universal Credit

Universal Credit is a United Kingdom social security payment that is intended to simplify working-age benefits and to incentivise paid work. It is replacing and combining six means-tested benefits: income-based Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, and Income Support; Housing Benefit; and Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.
The new policy was announced in 2010 at the Conservative annual conference by the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, who said it would make the social security system fairer to claimants and taxpayers. At the same venue the Welfare Reform Minister, Lord David Freud, emphasised the scale of their plan, saying it was a "once in many generations" reform. A key feature of the benefit was that unemployment payments would taper off as the recipient moved into work, not suddenly stop, thus avoiding a 'cliff edge' that was said to 'trap' people in unemployment. Universal Credit was legislated for in the Welfare Reform Act 2012. [2]
Universal Credit will replace the following benefits:
Child Tax Credit
Housing Benefit
Income Support
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Working Tax Credit [1]
References
1. DWP and UK.gov. (2016). Universal Credit. Available: https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit. Last accessed 10/02/2019.
2.
Wikipedia . (2012). Universal Credit. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Credit, . Last accessed 10/02/2019.