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Of universal credit, the big new bit of the benefit system. do you think universal credit is coping with this massive hit to people's living standards in the way that it was intended to? because the whole point about universal credit is it's mega flexible, you can take it up, take it down, it adds to people's incomes as their circumstances change, you know, uc is performing and that's why we persuaded and i'm pleased with the chance of the budget to do what i wanted to do, which is to add the other bit to uc, which is universal support — universal credit, universal support. that's because fo...

It took us ages and finally we stumbled into it in the 1930s and recognised it was a terrible threat but it cost 60 million lives to put that one right. we faced it during the cold war but the lesson we had learnt is you have to be strong in the face of authoritarianism and at the end of the day, that collapsed in front of us. but then, we made this great thing that thought, well, we've won now. there'll never be another problem. not true. and this is now rising in plain view. the difference is china recognised something about the soviet union. it wasn't economically powerful, so the west was ...

In the way that it was intended to? because the whole point about universal credit is it's mega flexible, you can take it up, take it down, it adds to people's incomes as their circumstances change, you know, uc is performing and that's why we persuaded and i'm pleased with the chance of the budget to do what i wanted to do, which is to add the other bit to uc, which is universal support — universal credit, universal support. that's because for the first time, universal credit identifies whole household income. it means now we know who are really coping and not coping. so what we can put alo...

Work and to help people stay in the work. we saw things like money for a digital service to help people reflect on their careers and finances, with some money for careers in extra training places, and most substantially, i think, we have seen a big investment and support for people who are disabled are out of work for a long—term health condition want to go back again in a sustainable way. that investment has come alongside some changes in the benefit system, which are rightly controversial and need to be looked at, but they do have the potential to make a really big difference to help peopl...

You have been looking through it. what has been announced? the benefit s stem what has been announced? the benefit system makes — what has been announced? the benefit system makes a _ what has been announced? the benefit system makes a distinction _ what has been announced? the benefit system makes a distinction between i system makes a distinction between being ill and being disabled and to get additional payments claimants have to go through to mike russell protests. the government's plan is to scrap the work capability assessment, the test used to decide if someone is too ill to work from...