Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the child element of Universal Credit and associated entitlement for all children is not withheld when verification is pending for one child.

Claims for multiple children are considered as a whole. Therefore, where multiple children are added to a Universal Credit claim simultaneously and verification is pending for one of the children, a claimant is supposed to re-declare all verified children to ensure that they receive the Child Element for the verified children.