Universal Credit

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Universal Credit

  1. (taxation) A welfare benefit in the United Kingdom, replacing previous benefits and tax credits, gradually rolled out from 2013 and expected to cover the whole country by the end of 2024.
    • 2019 October 14, Robert Booth, “Computer says no: the people trapped in universal credit's 'black hole'”, in The Guardian‎:
      So now Mahmood was in debt and his existing benefits were stopped because the DWP computer thought he was receiving universal credit.

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