Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory reconsideration requests her Department received from claimants affected by the benefit cap in each month of 2020.
The available information is in the table. It shows the total number of Universal Credit Mandatory Reconsiderations requested by people in households where the benefit cap applies, and the reconsideration may not be related to the application of the benefit cap.
Month | Mandatory Reconsiderations requested from UC benefit cap cases |
Jan-20 | 280 |
Feb-20 | 210 |
Mar-20 | 300 |
Apr-20 | 210 |
May-20 | 310 |
Jun-20 | 320 |
Jul-20 | 280 |
Table covers Great Britain only
Mandatory Reconsiderations by month requested
Answers are rounded to the nearest 10