Article about migration from esa to uc causing issues.

Thanks @Catherine21 I've had a quick look and the whole article needs to be read very carefully as there's a lot of detail in there. But it looks like it's written in such a way as to get people worried. It states out of the sample group, 8 mistakes were made, but if that sample group was scaled up to the claimants in the UK, THEN it would be thousands of cases. It's a bit sneaky.

"The reports show that, of a sample of 1,653 universal credit cases checked in one month last year, there were errors made in meeting the standards in nearly 20 per cent of them (328).

There were also errors made with five per cent of the counter-fraud and compliance cases that were checked (36 out of 807)."

Most errors are showing around 5% of the 1653 cases, which is not ideal, but still pretty small. So the article stating "Potentially thousands of errors" is very carefully worded to say "potentially" as the writers of the article have no actual evidence to back this up. I could say there's potentially thousands of rabbits living in my garden, because I've seen one there. 😆

I do need to say though, I'm not sticking up for the DWP as I'd like the errors to be at zero percent, as we all deserve to have our cases handled carefully and with respect.

But to post a link on the community, just do it exactly how you did when you emailed it to us. 😊

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-staff-make-thousands-of-potentially-fatal-errors-a-month-on-disability-claims-official-reports-reveal/