Interesting article in the @guardian at the weekend about the challenges HMRC are facing. I couldn't help but also reflect on what pressures look like from the other end in this week's blog - https://t.co/GNAm0McWr5
@OBR_UK Your report makes no reference to the systemic risk to UC's delivery posed by HMRC RTI earnings data (which has to be on time and right every time for UC working claimants) but which HMRC/HMT admit is (at least) 5% "late, missing or incorrect".
We conclude that the move to UC is: fiscally significant and complicated to assess; has large, but largely offsetting, effects on spending; involves large gains and losses for some groups; and poses a risk to public spending control due to information gaps.
@JolyonMaugham 700,000 is the current UC 'caseload' only: from July 2019 3m working tax credit families will be exposed to RTI earnings data for their monthly UC awards calculated in real time. RTI is unreliable because there's no default checking of the data for all claimants https://t.co/PpohBRHa7h
The key 2018 #payroll and #pensions events/announcements that we know about so far and the potential impact: https://t.co/tqLYOiloou - see the full article originally posted at https://t.co/ezUKxawwU6