{"id":46172,"date":"2018-06-21T01:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/21\/universal-credit-flaws-inflict-childcare-costs-on-new-workers\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T01:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T23:01:05","slug":"universal-credit-flaws-inflict-childcare-costs-on-new-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=46172","title":{"rendered":"Universal credit flaws inflict childcare costs on new workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents forced to borrow money while waiting for funds, says Save the ChildrenDesign flaws in the way universal credit supports families with the cost of childcare are pushing low-income parents hundreds of pounds into debt \u201cjust for getting a new job\u201d, according to Save the Children.The charity said the requirement by childcare providers for costs to be paid in advance \u2013 as much as \u00a31,000 a month for a full-time place for a one-year-old on average in England \u2013 leaves families out of pocket for weeks and risks tipping them \u201cover the financial precipice\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/jun\/21\/universal-credit-flaws-inflict-childcare-costs-on-new-workers\" target=\"_blank\">Universal credit flaws inflict childcare costs on new workers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents forced to borrow money while waiting for funds, says Save the ChildrenDesign flaws in the way universal credit supports families with the cost of childcare are pushing low-income parents hundreds of pounds into debt \u201cjust for getting a new job\u201d, according to Save the Children.The charity said the requirement [&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-46172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46172","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=46172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}