Universal Credit payments has managed to have the bill written off. Tina Newman was sinking in £5,372 worth of debt which she had to pay to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).She was told this was because she couldn't prove she met the full DWP criteria for it.
The 40-year-old lost her job at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and was sub-letting in a shared property. However, the DWP said she didn't have a tenancy agreement or formal contract and was not entitled to all the money.In the year to February 2021, the number of renters using Universal Credit increased from 749,000 to 1.5million, reports the i News.
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