British Financial Secretary Stephen Timms said it was "not the right time for the programme".
Another Labour MP, Stephen Timms, complained that the government was "dragging its feet".
There were benefits for those who decided to file online, according to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Timms.
Things have improved in absolute terms, said Stephen Timms, the welfare-reform minister.
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But shadow minister Stephen Timms said the government had failed to heed warnings about the time needed to create the Universal Credit system.
Stephen Timms, the new pensions minister, recognises the importance of private pensions, and promises to look carefully at criticisms of the stakeholder proposals.
But Pension Reform Minister Stephen Timms told the BBC that the government had written to pensioners, making clear that this was not the case.
In 2010 British MP Stephen Timms was nearly killed when a 21-year-old British student stabbed him during a meeting with his constituents in east London.
Shadow work and pensions minister Stephen Timms said Labour would "get the welfare bill down by getting the country back to work, and making work pay".
Stephen Timms, a minister in Mr Purnell's department, points to the 600, 000 vacancies in the economy and says the government is working for the long term.
Labour frontbencher Stephen Timms argued that Mr Duncan Smith's plans to tighten the rules on claiming benefits would make the implementation of universal credit even more "chaotic".
Among those who have entered their names into the ballot are former cabinet ministers: Hilary Benn, Ben Bradshaw, Liam Byrne, John Denham, Peter Hain, Stephen Timms, Shaun Woodward and Jim Murphy.
Friends of the Earth countered that Northern Ireland shouldn't be regarded as a place apart, citing examples, like the stabbing attack on Labour MP Stephen Timms, when politicians in Great Britain have been under direct threat.
Employment and Welfare Reform Minister Stephen Timms MP denies that the one million target will only be reached through a rise in unemployment - that many will simply be shifted off the sick and onto other benefits.
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