Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse
(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the risk of a link between the introduction of universal credit and levels of domestic violence.
This question was answered on 9th July 2014
No such assessment is planned. There are safeguards in place in Universal Credit to ensure that we have the ability to split payments between partners in cases of domestic violence, allowing each claimant to receive a separate payment.