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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Time to be ploughed
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"Duncan Smith is understood to have insisted on a "twin track" approach – keeping current universal credit development going to prove that claimants could use the service before the 2015 election – while ordering money and time to be ploughed into a web-based system that did not rely heavily on jobcentre staff to fill in claimant benefit details." [From the Guardian.]
Can one order and plough time?
"Shiplee's next in command, Ann Harris, also disclosed during the meeting that due to the multitude of problematic issues facing universal credit, the project was coded red overall." [Ditto.]
Does the "red overall" cod mean, literally, a sort of clothing in the context?
"Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: "Iain Duncan Smith's repeated promises to deliver universal credit on time and on budget have been broken, with an astonishing £40m written off so far, £91m written down, and only a handful expected to claim universal credit by 2015." [Ditto.]
Does the "£40m written off" mean money taken out of the budget?
Does the "£91m written down" mean money added to the budget?
Thank you.
"Duncan Smith is understood to have insisted on a "twin track" approach – keeping current universal credit development going to prove that claimants could use the service before the 2015 election – while ordering money and time to be ploughed into a web-based system that did not rely heavily on jobcentre staff to fill in claimant benefit details." [From the Guardian.]
Can one order and plough time?
"Shiplee's next in command, Ann Harris, also disclosed during the meeting that due to the multitude of problematic issues facing universal credit, the project was coded red overall." [Ditto.]
Does the "red overall" cod mean, literally, a sort of clothing in the context?
"Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: "Iain Duncan Smith's repeated promises to deliver universal credit on time and on budget have been broken, with an astonishing £40m written off so far, £91m written down, and only a handful expected to claim universal credit by 2015." [Ditto.]
Does the "£40m written off" mean money taken out of the budget?
Does the "£91m written down" mean money added to the budget?
Thank you.
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Anonymous Can one order and plough time? Yes: work time. Anonymous Does the "red overall" cod mean, literally, a sort of clothing in the context?
- Anonymous Can one order and plough time?
- Yes: work time.
- Anonymous Does the "red overall" cod mean, literally, a sort of clothing in the context?
- No.
- It was marked as 'in trouble' in some way.
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AnonymousCan one order and plough time?Yes: work time.
AnonymousDoes the "red overall" cod mean, literally, a sort of clothing in the context?No. It was marked as 'in trouble' in some way.
AnonymousDoes the "£40m written off" mean money taken out of the budget?No. Recorded as lost inv
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