Cuts to child benefit, carers' allowance, and employment support allowance, coupled with proposals to tax disability allowances will all affect claimants not easily dismissed as "undeserving" or "scroungers" in populist dogma, and will reinforce the notion of the Tories as the "nasty party".
Bereavement Allowance, Bereavement Payment, Child Benefit, Guardian's Allowance, Maternity Allowance, Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Sick Pay, Widowed Parent's Allowance.
And even then a number of benefits – such as contributory jobseeker's allowance, child benefit and disability living allowance – will remain outside universal credit.
Benefits that will be unaffected by the changes include Child Benefit, Disability Living Allowance and Contributory Jobseekers Allowance, which is paid for the first six months of being unemployed out of National Insurance contributions.
As cuts reach families of all kinds – and they lose housing benefit, tax credits, education maintenance allowance (EMA), child benefit and child disability allowance – large numbers of people will soon know some friend, colleague or relative who was similarly unfairly treated.
The amount lost to fraud in the entire benefits system, which includes not just out-of-work benefits, but tax credits, child benefit, disability living allowance, housing benefits and pensions, is around £2bn a year.
They are not staying at home, they are not taking money from child benefit and jobseekers' allowance – they've found work as butchers, taxi drivers, or in restaurants," he says.
Of course the tax summaries do not break down the welfare payments into their constituent parts such as unemployment, child benefit, winter fuel allowance, in-work tax credit etc.
But the lawmakers who introduced the bill, called the American Family Act, didn't use the terms "child benefit" or "child allowance" at their Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday.
Those immigrants are entitled to social welfare, child benefits, integration allowances and language courses among other things.
