22 March 2019
Evidence submitted for the Social Security Committee's inquiry on social security support for housing.
Updates on natural migration onto UC, assessment period inflexibility, the two child limit, and disabled people losing SDP.
21 December 2018
Using cases from our Early Warning System, this submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee highlights issues parents face in claiming childcare costs through universal credit.
A summary of the main issues that come through to the Early Warning System, and what we’re doing about them.
A call for case examples of errors in the administration of housing costs contribution in universal credit.
Early Warning System, which gathers evidence about the impacts of welfare reform on children and their families.
How you can get involved, what the EWS is telling us, what we have been doing with your case studies, next steps for the Early Warning System
08 August 2018
In the ‘simple’ world of universal credit, monthly assessment periods are the supposedly ‘neat’ way of judging what financial support families should get based on their earnings and circumstances.
06 August 2018
This report identifies a range of problems arising from the rigid system of monthly assessment of both income and circumstances in universal credit, based on cases from CPAG’s Early Warning System, and proposes practical solutions.