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<p>The Department has been working closely with HMRC since Universal Credit went live
in 2013 to support and inform employers who report earnings to emphasise the importance
of timely reporting via the Real Time Information (RTI) system.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC
have updated their guidance to reiterate to employers the importance of reporting
accurate dates and the impact on payment cycles; the Financial Secretary to the Treasury
is also working closely with HMRC and employers to do this.</p><p> </p><p>RTI concerns,
questions and complaints data is not centrally collated and could only be supplied
at disproportionate to the Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department received over
31 million RTI notifications from employers for Universal Credit claimants in the
last 12 months (17 June 2018 to 16 June 2019). These records were used to produce
over 18.5 million individual earnings calculations and 77,952 of those calculations
were disputed by claimants, of which around a fifth were upheld.</p>
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