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date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Budgeting Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November to Question 115390, whether people in receipt of (a) income Support, (b) income-related employment and support allowance or (c) income-related jobseeker's allowance who will in future receive universal credit will be permitted to access Social Fund Budgeting Loans.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	116518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Claimants who are in receipt of Income Support, income related Employment and Support Allowance and income based Jobseeker’s Allowance can qualify for a Social Fund Budgeting Loans if the satisfy the eligibility conditions. Claimants in receipt of Universal Credit can qualify for a Universal Credit Budgeting Advance which is also a loan that is interest free and for intermittent expenses such as furniture or household equipment.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/12/2017 14:53:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

797586

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the 12-month grace period to protect individuals from a reduction in housing benefit when someone who lived with them passes away is being implemented effectively.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	116549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>A grace period exists in Housing Benefit to help protect those suffering a bereavement for a period of 12 months. This applies not only in respect of the claimant or their partner but to people linked to them, such as a family member who lives in the same household. This means that housing benefit entitlement is protected from any consequential decrease in their eligible rent for a year from the date of a death.</p><p> </p><p>It is however the responsibility of individual local authorities to assess individual benefit claims and apply the specific rules which is laid out in regulations and guidance.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/12/2017 14:59:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

795345

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2017 to Question 111488, on Department for Work and Pensions: telephone services, which and how many of his Department's phonelines fall within the parameters laid out by Ofcom.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	115766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>All calls to the Department for Work and Pensions phone lines fall within the parameters laid out by Ofcom.</p><p> </p><p>As at 28<sup>th</sup> November 2017, there are currently:</p><ul><li>250 phone lines where the number starts 0345 and 18 phone lines where the number starts 0300;</li><li>74 phone lines where the number starts 0800 and 4 phone lines where the number starts 0808;</li><li>298 telephone numbers starting 0845 which are no longer in use. Anyone that dials one of the 0845 numbers will hear a recorded message advising them to redial the relevant alternative number. There is no charge for the call to the 0845 number.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In addition, DWP has individual phone lines for members of staff – generally 01 or 02 numbers, although also some mobiles. Calls to these would also fall within the parameters laid out by Ofcom, but there is limited volume of customer traffic direct to these numbers.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/12/2017 14:51:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett