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<p>Universal Credit is designed to react and respond quickly to feedback from our
stakeholders and claimants to improve the service we offer. This means that any report
based on a view of the service at a given date may well be inaccurate only a short
period afterwards.</p><p> </p><p>This is the case with this Child Poverty Action Group
(CPAG) report. The report does not take into account recent changes to the Universal
Credit Statement which ensures that claimants receive detailed information about any
deductions which have been made to their Universal Credit award, including a clear
breakdown of what each deduction is for. Consequently, the Department has written
to CPAG about the report, outlining the up to date position on these issues and inviting
CPAG and his Honour Judge Sir Stephen Sedley, who wrote the report’s foreword, to
meet to discuss these matters.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will continue to make
improvements to Universal Credit to ensure that we provide claimants with the information
they need to understand their Universal Credit award.</p>
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