Universal Credit was sold as “simpler.” What it really is? State-engineered poverty.
Five-week waits, sanctions for missing appointments you’re too sick to attend, digital systems that shut people out. They knew exactly what they were doing. They built a system designed to fail us.
Families go hungry. Disabled people are forced to skip meals. People die waiting for payments that never come.
That’s not incompetence. That’s cruelty by design.
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