Sentence examples for new benefit system from inspiring English sources

On the plans for universal credit, welfare reform minister Lord Freud confirmed that the new benefit system was "on track, on budget and on time".

The DWP's new benefit system universal credit is scheduled to go live in the north-west in April 2013, six months ahead of the national roll out in October 2013.

Last month, he also said the government's flagship new benefit system, universal credit, was on the way to joining an "inglorious list" of disasters alongside the poll tax and rail privatisation.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said that the early roll out of its new benefit system is expected to see up to 1,500 new universal credit claimants join the system across four areas - Tameside, Oldham, Wigan and Warrington - each month.

Although he offered no similar reversal on universal credit, which could see a drop in income of £1,000 a year for working households in 2020, the government hopes the new benefit system will both improve financial inclusion and encourage more people into work.

Regulations had to be passed in time for councils to prepare for the new benefit system.

Zero-hours contracts will actually be "enabling" for workers under the coalition's new benefits system, the Tory employment minister, Esther McVey, has claimed.

But he left in place reductions for universal credit – the new benefits system that is being slowly rolled out across the country.

The new benefits system will cause financial hardship to some of the people least able to cope, warn advisers and charities – and problems have already begun.

However, similar cuts are scheduled to apply to Universal Credit – a new benefits system the Government wants all claimants to eventually use.

Nearly three quarters of a million people will not move onto the Government's controversial new benefits system by 2017, ministers admitted on Thursday, because of multiple failures that have left Universal Credit over budget and behind schedule.