Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) tax credit, universal credit and the employment and support allowance—are in scope. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I speak as someone who was a Minister at the Department for Work and Pensions back in 2017. - Speech Link
3: None work, expenses of paying sums in respect of vehicle hire et cetera, universal credit, health and pregnancy - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) use this with universal credit, employment and support allowance—ESA, pension credit and housing benefit - Speech Link
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of people affected by (a) respiratory and (b) fatigue conditions who may have their Universal Credit awards changed under the recently announced Work Capability Assessment reforms.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
In November last year we announced changes to the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) criteria, to deliver the right outcomes and reflect changes in work since the criteria were last comprehensively reviewed in 2011.
Changes to the WCA activities and descriptors will be implemented nationally no earlier than 2025. The majority of existing Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance claimants will not be affected by the WCA changes if they have already been assessed as having limited capability for work and work-related activity.
With these changes to the WCA criteria, 424,000* fewer people will be assessed as having limited capability for work and work-related activity by 2028-29 and will receive personalised support to help them move closer to employment. A further 33,000* individuals will be found fit for work by 2028-2029 and will receive more intensive support to search for and secure work than would be the case under the current WCA rules.
Estimates are not based on specific conditions because the WCA considers the impact that a person’s disability or health condition has on their ability to work, not the condition itself.
We will publish an Impact Assessment in due course.
Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department provides to work coaches on the flexible work fund; and what steps he is taking to promote uptake of that funding.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department provides comprehensive guidance which is regularly updated to support our Work Coaches use of the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). We are currently reviewing our guidance to increase both usage and clarity of FSF.
We have recently promoted the availability of FSF on Gov.uk specifically in relation to Upfront Child Care costs Universal Credit childcare costs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Apr. 19 2024
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Apr. 19 2024
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Apr. 19 2024
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Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: Long-term out of work and “Searching for Work” claimants on Universal CreditFound: Long-term out of work and “Searching for Work” claimants on Universal Credit
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an estimate of how many people entitled to the Employment and Support Allowance did not claim it in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Estimates for the number of entitled non-recipients and caseload take-up are available for income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Income Support (IS) up to financial year 2018/19. These can be found here. Figures for 2018/19 were affected by no new claims for income-related ESA and IS from December 2018 as a result of Universal Credit rollout. No figures have been published for ESA/IS since 2018/19 due to the roll out of Universal Credit.
No estimates of the volume of entitled non-recipients of New Style (contributory) ESA have been made.
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: I. Tables showing numbers of claimants of Universal Credit in each constituency, by employment status and Jobcentre Plus conditionality requirements, in November and December 2023 and January 2024. [Update to DEP2024-2022]. II. Letter dated 15/04/2024 from Jo Churchill MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding a document for deposit in the House libraries. 1pFound: Tables showing numbers of claimants of Universal Credit in each constituency, by employment status and
Mentions:
1: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) Unlike under the Department for Work and Pensions system, Social Security Scotland gathers the supporting - Speech Link
2: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) By the end of 2023, more than 47,000 awards were safely and securely transferred from the Department - Speech Link
3: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) the UK Government to reform universal credit, including by introducing an essentials guarantee and abolishing - Speech Link
4: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) Why does he think that the work that he has described is not, in the view of older people, working for - Speech Link