The DWP is unveiling a pilot scheme in which benefit claimants who are transitioning to the new and much delayed Universal Credit system can apply to be cyrogenically frozen during the transition period to the new benefit. The wait to be successfully moved over to the new allowance scheme is usually at least as long as the school holidays, at least even in the best case scenarios a period of at least 6 weeks. The bodies of claimants who volunteer will be held in situ in special freezers installed in cellars under the countries' last remaining job centres and some in deep freezer units of food distribution warehouses that serve the likes of Aldi and Lidl. Most people so far have actually preferred lacking any consciousness as they wait for their universal credit payments to finally begin because they have to visit food banks and cannot pay regular bills.
Staff inside some job centres have discovered that in some cases they don't even need deep freezers to begin the cyrogenic process for many of their claimants, they can instead merely look at people sternly and threaten more sanctions and mandatory work activity and that starts to do the trick. The most successful job centre in Sheffield has managed to freeze 80% of its claimants because it's job centre manager looks like a cross between Anne Robinson & Ann Widdecombe and has received an award from central government in Westminster for issuing the most sanctions for claimants being less than 5 minutes to routine appointments.
But critics of the government and DWP which include nearly everybody who doesn't have a trust fund or wealthy parents have pointed out that claimants of jobseekers Allowance and employment and support allowance can apply for their bodies to be physically frozen whilst they have no payments over 6 weeks their bills and rent will not also be able to be cyrogenically frozen.
Universal Credit has been praised as being harder to hang on to due to its necessary conditionality than a chance of becoming Alan Sugars Apprentice.
