https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/29/pac_universal_credit_slammed_again/

Brit MPs have expressed serious concerns about the Department for Work and Pensions' ability to transfer 4 million people on legacy benefits to its embattled Universal Credit programme.

The programme, which began in 2010, is designed to replace six separate means-tested benefits and cut annual admin costs by £99m. But the project struggled to develop the technology needed and it was entirely reset in 2013. By March this year, the DWP had spent £1.3bn of the £2bn budgeted up to 2024-25.