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<p>Reverting to legacy benefits would not only create massive disruption for claimants,
but would leave them trapped in a complex and confusing system of multiple and overlapping
benefits. The legacy benefits system consists of 6 different benefits, each with separate
rules and criteria, interacting in complicated ways, creating perverse incentives
and confusion, and additional administrative costs.</p><p> </p><p>Our staff have been
trained in the more flexible and tailored Universal Credit system, which the projections
in our published Universal Credit Full Business Case expect to put 200,000 more people
into work in the UK. Our new system, will for the first time benefit people in work
looking to progress, and enables us to provide extra personalised support and stronger
work incentives to help people out of poverty and into work faster.</p><p> </p><p>As
the National Audit Office noted in their recent report, as the changes have become
increasingly embedded across the department, it would be both complex and expensive
to revert to legacy benefits at this stage.</p>
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