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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
State Pension Triple Lock

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
State Pension Triple Lock

"The Minister spoke about the extra support for pensioners—I think she said it was £850. Does she realise that that does not even cover the increase in the average energy bill, which has gone up from £1,100 to £2,500? More importantly, what does she think energy bills will be when …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
State Pension Triple Lock

"Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that those other social security payments also need to be uprated in line with inflation? If so, should Labour not have made the motion wider to include that?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
State Pension Triple Lock

"Can the Secretary of State outline why it would be irresponsible to confirm that the Government are keeping a manifesto commitment and promise?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Minister knows that in July 2021 the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found the DWP guilty of maladministration regarding state pension age increases. The PHSO also suggested that the Department could consider being proactive in remedying the injustice suffered by 3.8 million women, rather than waiting for its final …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The reality is that even before the Pensions Minister scrapped the triple lock, taking £500 out of the pockets of pensioners, the UK had pensioner poverty rates higher than small independent European countries. We now know that the Chancellor is reviewing the corporation tax rates, which were intended to raise …..."
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Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Cost of Living
Tuesday 5th July 2022

Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason people in receipt of Employment Support Allowance contributions do not qualify for the £650 cost of living payment; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by David Rutley

The Government is rightly targeting the £650 Cost of Living Payment support at low-income households in receipt of qualifying means tested benefits.

Contributory Employment and Support Allowance is not a means tested income replacement benefit. Non-means tested benefits are not eligible benefits, but low-income recipients can claim an eligible means tested benefit alongside them. Many of those in receipt of contributory Employment Support Allowance are also in receipt of a means tested benefit. For example, as of November 2021 there were around 400,000 claimants getting both income and contributory Employment and Support Allowance, and around 100,000 claimants getting Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit.

In addition, individuals may be able eligible for the £150 Disability Cost of Living Payment if they are in receipt of a qualifying disability benefits.

The guidance with the full list of support can be found at:

Overall government support for the cost of living: factsheet - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

People in receipt of Contributory Employment Support Allowance can also benefit from the support being provided for by the Government. This includes £400 of support for energy bills through the expansion of the Energy Bills Support Scheme and an additional £500 million to help households with the cost of essentials, bringing the total funding for this support to £1.5 billion. In England, £421m will be used to further extend the Household Support Fund (October 2022 – March 2023). Guidance and individual local authority indicative allocations for this further extension to the Household Support Fund will be announced in due course.

Further measures to help people with the cost of living challenges including frozen fuel duty, raising the NICs threshold, the £150 council tax rebates and the further rise in the National Living Wage to £9.50 an hour from April 2022.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jun 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The removal of the triple lock is costing pensioners £500 this year alone, and come October energy bills will have risen by £1,700 compared with April 2021. The £300 winter fuel payment does not come close to plugging that gap, let alone addressing the other inflationary pressures that pensioners are …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Working Tax Credit and Universal Credit: Two-Child Limit

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe, and I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) for having secured this debate. More importantly, I thank her for the tireless campaigning she has done on this two-child policy, which victimises and stigmatises families …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 21 Apr 2022
Working Tax Credit and Universal Credit: Two-Child Limit

"I thank my hon. Friend for that. I will not disagree. The hon. Member for Strangford also referred to evidential work done by the LSE. This is evidence that the Government should look at. We are discussing a Government who talk about family values. How can they talk about family …..."
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