Make Up For Benefit Cuts By Working 200 More Hours, Government Says

‘The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted that people will see cash losses to their in-work benefits under the new universal credit system and suggested they could make up for it by working an extra 200 hours a year.

In a new document on universal credit, published after parliament has broken up for Christmas, the department said people could “recoup the loss” caused by lower in-work benefits from April 2016 by taking on an extra three or four hours of work a week at the new “national living wage” of £7.20 an hour.

Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, has repeatedly insisted that people on universal credit will not be worse off because of changes to in-work benefits announced at the summer budget.’

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