You deserve credit for drawing attention to the failings of universal credit ( Report, 24 November ). Yet despite all the evidence of this inadequacy, you appear to assume, like the two main political parties, that with sufficient pause such a system can be made to work in a way that is ultimately sustainable. Universal credit is unfixable. Whatever the merits of the original idea, it is astounding that the government could not have foreseen in the early stages of development that as an overall system of benefit, it would prove to be unworkable because of the large variety […]
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