Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 57804

Universal Credit

Tabled: 5 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025

Question

Adam Jogee

LabourNewcastle-under-Lyme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people who are in receipt of the Universal Credit health element who were not also in receipt of the Personal Independence Payment daily living component prior to the Work Capability Assessment

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Our Pathways to Work Green Paper set out why we are scrapping the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). We want to end the binary categorisation of groups and labelling as either ‘can or can’t work’. Instead, any extra financial support for health conditions ...

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