Many of these people are working and it includes children. At its current pace, around 1% of the population will be classed as destitute.
And we are told austerity is over. For whom?
“As many as 580,000 people could lose out on benefits payments in the changeover to Universal Credit, leaving vulnerable and hard-up families in crisis.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is currently rolling out the government’s flagship benefits reform programme and is due to move 2 million more claimants onto Universal Credit next year.
But the latest data shows that a “worryingly high” rate of claims are not being successfully processed onto the new system, HuffPost UK can reveal, with 29% closed or not paid.
If the current claim failure rates were replicated in the next stage of Universal Credit roll-out then 580,000 people who are currently receiving benefits, including many low income families who are in work and receiving income support, would lose out on payments.
The figures have led to urgent demands for the government to halt Universal Credit, which has been besieged by criticism from both the Labour Party and disability and welfare charities. …”
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/universal-credit-process-rate_uk_5bbe232ee4b01470d057ffcc
East Devon Watch 
So that’s (say) another 100,000 hungry kids, 50,000 homeless, 10,000 suicides and 10,000 deaths from freezing weather, 750,000 mental illnesses etc. to add to the existing genocidal-sized roll call.
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