Ruth Cain
Senior Lecturer in the Kent Law School at the University of Kent
Rethinking Recovery III: The gendered impact of Universal Credit
Ruth Cain - 17 July 2015Rethinking Recovery III: The gendered impact of Universal Credit
As part of the Conservative Government’s welfare reform, Universal Credit (UC) is now being rolled out across the UK. UC negatively and disproportionately impacts women and low-paid families. Not only does it do little to address the social crises sparked by austerity, it also enacts punitive sanctions on to individuals unable to amass sufficient wages through precarious work – even if these conflict with childcare responsibilities.