Reports of a further leap in new claims for Universal Credit suggest that the government support designed to keep people employed isn’t working and that the unemployment rate could jump from 3.9% in January to about 5.5% in April. Our forecast that the unemployment rate will peak at 6% now looks too hopeful.
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