{"id":63252,"date":"2015-10-26T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5eb529fd38d59494d102b58ee49cbf6c"},"modified":"2015-10-26T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:15:09","slug":"news-story-universal-credit-now-available-in-over-60-of-jobcentres-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63252","title":{"rendered":"News story: Universal Credit now available in over 60% of jobcentres in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This morning all new single claimants applying for unemployment benefits at these jobcentres will apply for Universal Credit.<\/p>\n<p>The new system is designed to ensure people will be better off in work than on welfare and means they can receive support from Jobcentre staff both in and out of work.<\/p>\n<p>Today, single jobseekers will be able to claim Universal Credit in: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atherstone<\/li>\n<li>Bromsgrove<\/li>\n<li>Caernarfon<\/li>\n<li>Carmarthen<\/li>\n<li>Malvern<\/li>\n<li>Stafford<\/li>\n<li>Swadlincote<\/li>\n<li>Heanor<\/li>\n<li>Alfreton<\/li>\n<li>Belper<\/li>\n<li>Abertillery<\/li>\n<li>Ebbw Vale<\/li>\n<li>Tredegar<\/li>\n<li>Ammandford<\/li>\n<li>Llanelli<\/li>\n<li>Bangor<\/li>\n<li>Dolgellau<\/li>\n<li>Machynlleth<\/li>\n<li>Porthmadog<\/li>\n<li>Pwllheli<\/li>\n<li>Brecon<\/li>\n<li>Llandrindod Wells<\/li>\n<li>Newton<\/li>\n<li>Welshpool<\/li>\n<li>Ystradgynlais<\/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><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GtreNGmeexo&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;list=PLeysxjNpEPy_UnItAtlw9u3tTwE4oMIiL\">How Universal Credit can 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/jobcentres-where-you-can-claim-universal-credit\">list of jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 450 jobcentres now offer Universal Credit as 25 more start taking new claims from today (26 October 2015).<\/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\/63252"}],"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=63252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}