Universal Credit: Bullying and Sexual Harassment

(asked on 4th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of excluding payments from workplace (a) bullying redress schemes and (b) sexual harassment redress schemes from income calculations for universal credit.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 9th February 2021

There are no plans to amend the treatment in Universal Credit of such payments. They would not be treated as unearned income unless subject to taxation under Part 5 of the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005. Where one-off payments are treated as capital there would be no effect on Universal Credit entitlement unless the claimant’s capital reached £6,000 or more. Capital of £16,000 would end entitlement to Universal Credit.

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