Universal Credit

(asked on 14th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to ensure that claimants previously in receipt of severe disability premium of employment and support allowance are not financially worse off after moving to universal credit.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 20th June 2018

We are committed to supporting disabled people and continue to review the Universal Credit claimant experience and processes.

Earlier this month we announced that claimants in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium will qualify for transitional protection when they move to Universal Credit. We will backdate these payments for those who have already moved to Universal Credit, to cover the period between their move to Universal Credit and the introduction of the new payment.

Further detail can be accessed in the Secretary of State’s Written Statement HCWS745, made on 7 June:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-06-07/HCWS745

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