{"id":61815,"date":"2015-09-20T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5643123f3204ef1c195b47f7f50081d9"},"modified":"2015-09-23T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:03:53","slug":"news-story-national-rollout-of-universal-credit-continues-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61815","title":{"rendered":"News story: National rollout of Universal Credit continues today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Changed &#8220;24 more jobcentres&#8221; to &#8220;25 more jobcentres&#8221; and added &#8220;Amlwch&#8221; to the list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This morning (21 September 2015) all new single claimants applying for unemployment benefits at these jobcentres will start claiming Universal Credit: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abergavenny<\/li>\n<li>Amlwch<\/li>\n<li>Andover<\/li>\n<li>Bishop Auckland<\/li>\n<li>Borehamwood<\/li>\n<li>Caldicot<\/li>\n<li>Chepstow<\/li>\n<li>Chester-le-Street<\/li>\n<li>Consett<\/li>\n<li>Crawley<\/li>\n<li>Crook<\/li>\n<li>Durham<\/li>\n<li>Haywards Heath<\/li>\n<li>Hemel Hempstead<\/li>\n<li>Holyhead<\/li>\n<li>Horsham<\/li>\n<li>Llangefni<\/li>\n<li>Merthyr Tydfil<\/li>\n<li>Newton Aycliffe<\/li>\n<li>Peterlee<\/li>\n<li>Reading<\/li>\n<li>Seaham<\/li>\n<li>Spennymoor<\/li>\n<li>Stanley<\/li>\n<li>Winchester<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you ready to claim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/universal-credit\">Universal Credit<\/a>? It\u2019s the new benefit that makes it easier to take up a wider range of jobs and get back to work quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video explaining how Universal Credit helps you into work.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GtreNGmeexo&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;list=PLeysxjNpEPy_UnItAtlw9u3tTwE4oMIiL\">Universal Credit help you into work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Universal Credit will eventually replace 6 existing benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance<\/li>\n<li>Income Support<\/li>\n<li>Employment and Support Allowance<\/li>\n<li>Working Tax Credit<\/li>\n<li>Child Tax Credits<\/li>\n<li>Housing Benefit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/jobcentres-where-you-can-claim-universal-credit\">jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 25 more jobcentres start offering Universal Credit from Durham to Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62023,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61815\/revisions\/62023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}