Universal Credit, ubiquitous conditionality and its implications for social citizenship

TY - JOUR

T1 - Universal Credit, ubiquitous conditionality and its implications for social citizenship

AU - Dwyer, Peter James

AU - Wright, Sharon

PY - 2014/2

Y1 - 2014/2

N2 - Between 2013 and 2017 Universal Credit replaces six means-tested working age benefits. Backed by a punitive system of tiered sanctions and fines, Universal Credit represents a major expansion and intensification of personalised behavioural conditionality and indicates the ubiquity of conditionality at the heart of twenty-first century UK social citizenship.

AB - Between 2013 and 2017 Universal Credit replaces six means-tested working age benefits. Backed by a punitive system of tiered sanctions and fines, Universal Credit represents a major expansion and intensification of personalised behavioural conditionality and indicates the ubiquity of conditionality at the heart of twenty-first century UK social citizenship.

KW - Universal Credit

KW - Conditionality

KW - CITIZENSHIP

U2 - 10.1332/175982714X13875305151043

DO - 10.1332/175982714X13875305151043

M3 - Article

SN - 1759-8273

VL - 22

SP - 27

EP - 35

JO - The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

JF - The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

IS - 1

ER -