<p>The Universal Credit will dramatically change the welfare system for working-age adults. If successful, it will make the welfare system more effective and coherent. But it will create winners and losers in the process: couples with children will gain from it and, when transitional protection expires, lone parents will lose. This is one of the key findings of a preliminary analysis funded by the ESRC and published today by the IFS.</p>
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Mike Brewer
James Browne
Wenchao (Michelle) Jin
Research Associate
Wenchao is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex and an IFS Research Associate.
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