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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith cravenly tried to bury his latest blunder during attacks on welfare yesterday under cover of the Chancellor's autumn statement.
As George Osborne prepared to take to his feet in the Commons, Mr Duncan Smith admitted that an estimated 700,000 disability benefit claimants will not be transferred to the new universal credit before 2017.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said that those on employment and support allowance will continue to receive the current service and, if appropriate, will be helped back to work by job centres.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
