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[Anonymous]

Is it more or could there be potential problems with paying UC monthly?

A lot of HB is paid 4 weekly here and aren’t most DWP benefits fortnightly? Will it not be tricky to bring it all into line?

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/875362-debt-fears-for-monthly-benefit-plan-to-replace-current-fortnightly-scheme

On another note (and I know they say it to ‘reinforce’ the message) but if I here ‘Universal Credit will make work pay’ one more time I may scream. I had the same problem with the ‘tough but fair’ cuts.

[Lee Fearon]

[quote=the goat]Is it more or could there be potential problems with paying UC monthly?

A lot of HB is paid 4 weekly here and aren’t most DWP benefits fortnightly? Will it not be tricky to bring it all into line?

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/875362-debt-fears-for-monthly-benefit-plan-to-replace-current-fortnightly-scheme

On another note (and I know they say it to ‘reinforce’ the message) but if I here ‘Universal Credit will make work pay’ one more time I may scream. I had the same problem with the ‘tough but fair’ cuts.[/quote]

Oliver, how about: “No one will lose out under Universal Credit”.

[RobBox]

IDS stated they would be 4 weekly over the weekend?, breifing papaer just released using the term montly, so who knows!

[John Boxall]

4 weekly is the worst option of all.

Most bills, rents etc are payable monthly

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.

Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield

[Anonymous]

“Oliver, how about: “No one will lose out under Universal Credit”.

Forgot that one! Add it to the list.

[John Boxall]

I suspect that we may all be gathering in front of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall at this rate

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.

Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield

[dayton609]

I wonder if the Four Weekly figure will be allocated to the Monthly Period J)

A sure fire way of saving money, or am I being to cynical? :~

[walmslm]

I suspect it is planned for 4 weekly, it’s just a confusion of terms, after all 4 weekly could be termed to be “lunar monthly” as opposed to calendar monthly, it’s just that this then gets shortened to “monthly payments” in the press. If you look at the report on the BBC website the headline says benefit payments to be made monthly but the article then states payments will be every 4 weeks.

Could be wrong though!

[Rob Hawes1]

[quote=John Boxall]I suspect that we may all be gathering in front of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall at this rate[/quote]

With whose head on the block, though?

[Anonymous]

My favourite phrase, which you don’t hear so much now, is “hard working families”

[jmembery]

I used to love the “hard working families” phrase during the election. I often woundered who was looking after the interests of the “working, but doing as little as I can get away with” families

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