Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

(asked on 7th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the emergency £20 top-up given to universal credit recipients in response to the covid-19 outbreak was not extended to people receiving employment and support allowance and personal independence payment.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 13th July 2020

I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the answer given by the Minister for Welfare Delivery, my Hon. Friend Will Quince on 29 June 2020 to Question UIN 57361.

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