Universal Credit
(asked on 22nd February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential effect of (a) increasing the child element of Universal Credit by at least £15 a week and (b) ending the benefit cap on levels of children living in poverty.
This question was answered on 2nd March 2023
No. It is not possible to produce a robust assessment of the impacts of increasing the child element of Universal Credit and ending the benefit cap on the numbers of people in low income.