| 释义 |
Universal Credit
A new social security payment for people who are looking for work or on a low income, which is being introduced from 2013 with the aim of simplifying the benefits system and cutting costs. A single payment will combine and replace six benefits for working-age people on a low household income: income-based jobseeker’s allowance, income-based employment support allowance, income support, working tax credit, child tax credit, and housing benefit. More than three million recipients of the six benefits were supposed to have transferred to the new system by 2017, but the full move will not now be completed before 2024. |