{"id":165144,"date":"2020-10-19T01:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/19\/mps-urge-starter-payment-to-universal-credit-claimants\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T01:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T23:01:03","slug":"mps-urge-starter-payment-to-universal-credit-claimants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=165144","title":{"rendered":"MPs urge &#039;starter payment&#039; to universal credit claimants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Select committee\u2019s recommendation aims to support people during five-week wait for first benefitsNew universal credit claimants should be offered a \u201cstarter payment\u201d to ensure they have enough money to pay for food and heating during the five-week wait for a first benefit payment, a cross-party report by MPs has recommended.The work and pensions select committee said there was growing evidence the five-week wait \u2013 a key design element in universal credit \u2013 could push people already in difficulties into crises such as rent arrears, food bank use and psychological distress. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/oct\/19\/mps-urge-starter-payment-to-universal-credit-claimants\" target=\"_blank\">MPs urge &#039;starter payment&#039; to universal credit claimants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select committee\u2019s recommendation aims to support people during five-week wait for first benefitsNew universal credit claimants should be offered a \u201cstarter payment\u201d to ensure they have enough money to pay for food and heating during the five-week wait for a first benefit payment, a cross-party report by MPs has recommended.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}