Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 21455

Universal Credit: Reviews

Tabled: 19 December 2024

Answered: 7 January 2025

Question

Seamus Logan

Scottish National Party — Aberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) the scope and (b) her planned timeline is for the upcoming review into Universal Credit; whether this review will make an assessment of whether Universal Credit enables claimants to afford esse

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

The Government is committed to reviewing Universal Credit to make sure it is doing the job we want it to, to make work pay and tackle poverty. We have already begun this work with the announcement of the Fair Repayment Rate in the Budget, giving 1.2 milli...

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