Universal Credit crunched
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🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush is joined, first, by Anoosh Chakelian to discuss the ongoing issues with Universal Credit, and then by Patrick Maguire in You Ask Us to consider whether there's any Brexit deal that could survive the Commons.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | 2023 has been the deadliest year for natural disasters since 2010, with over 75,000 deaths, predominantly from earthquakes and floods. |
| 0:33.0 | That's according to the 2023 Q3 Global Catastrophe Recap report |
| 0:38.0 | from Global Professional Services firm Aeon, which is sponsoring the New Statesman Podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | These disasters also have a huge economic impact. |
| 0:46.7 | While global insured losses from natural disaster events had reached 88 billion by the close |
| 0:52.1 | of the third quarter, economic losses totaled 295 billion, |
| 0:57.3 | highlighting a considerable protection gap. Aeon provides advice and solutions to businesses in over 120 countries to help them navigate |
| 1:06.4 | volatility, enhance resilience and make better decisions. |
| 1:10.6 | You can access its research and reporting at AON.com. |
| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Welcome to the New Stateson Podcast. This week it's just me but I'm joined by a new |
| 1:29.3 | states and podcast. This week it's just me but I'm joined by a new |
| 1:32.7 | Shekelly and Patrick McGuire to talk about Amber Rudd's attempt to put a |
| 1:36.5 | fresh look of paint on the Universal Credit and to explain what's going |
| 1:39.7 | on with Brexit. |
| 1:47.0 | Although of course the political focuses on Brexit and Patrick and I will be discussing that later on in the show. |
| 1:55.0 | There is still a whole other apparatus of the state and there is of course, |
| 2:00.0 | I guess actually the biggest overall remaining government project is still their |
| 2:03.7 | their flagship welfare policy the universal credit to discuss that I'm joined by |
| 2:08.4 | our senior writer and social affairs maven Anush Shekelion So yeah, you spotted a kind of another sort of bit of burying of bad news |
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