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853319

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date	02/03/2018
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	Disability Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were receiving (a) severe disability premium, (b) enhanced disability premium or (c) severe and enhanced disability premiums as of May 2017.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	130768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The information available for Income Support, Pension Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants in May 2017 who were in receipt of severe and enhanced disability premiums is in the table below:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Income Support, Pension Credit and Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants in receipt of the severe disability premium and enhanced disability premium, May-2017, Great Britain</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Income Support</p></td><td><p>Pension Credit</p></td><td><p>Jobseeker’s Allowance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Severe Disability Premium Only</p></td><td><p>10,450</p></td><td><p>502,110</p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enhanced Disability Premium Only</p></td><td><p>21,990</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Both Severe and Enhanced Disability Premium</p></td><td><p>6,520</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Source: DWP 100% and 5% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study data</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><ol><li>Income Support and Pension Credit figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Jobseeker’s Allowance figures are rounded to the nearest 100. “–“ denotes nil or negligible.</li><li>The JSA figures are from the 5% WPLS data. The best statistics on benefits are derived from 100% data sources. However, the 5% sample data still provide some detail not yet available from the 100% data sources. DWP recommends that, where the detail is only available on the 5% sample data, the proportions derived should be applied to the overall 100% total for the benefit. This is the methodology used to derive the JSA figures provided here.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department intends to release an ad-hoc statistics publication for Employment and Support Allowance recipients in receipt of severe and enhanced disability premiums.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not readily available for Housing Benefit and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/03/2018 12:01:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

853320

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
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	Disability Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will collate centrally information on the number of people claiming (a) enhanced disability premium, (b) severe disability premium or (c) enhanced and severe disability premiums alongside a payment of income-based employment and support allowance as of May 2017.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	130769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department intends to release an ad-hoc statistics publication for Employment and Support Allowance people in receipt of severe and enhanced disability premiums in the future.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/03/2018 16:56:56 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

853321

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have lost access to transitional protections through natural migration to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	130770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>We have always said that claimants who move over to Universal Credit as part of the managed migration process will not see a cash loss as a result of the change. This is provided that their circumstances remain the same. We will be starting managed migration of existing benefit claimants to Universal Credit from July 2019 and this will be completed by March 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who naturally move to Universal Credit will do so because they have had a change of circumstances. In such cases claimants will continue to have their new welfare support entitlement calculated on the rules of their new benefit.</p><p> </p><p>DWP continues to evaluate this policy as it is delivered.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 130771 question first answered 12/03/2018 11:56:39 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

853322

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have lost access to transitional protections through natural migration to universal credit were in receipt of (a) enhanced disability premium, (b) severe disability premium or (c) enhanced and severe disability premiums at the time of their migration.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	130771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>We have always said that claimants who move over to Universal Credit as part of the managed migration process will not see a cash loss as a result of the change. This is provided that their circumstances remain the same. We will be starting managed migration of existing benefit claimants to Universal Credit from July 2019 and this will be completed by March 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who naturally move to Universal Credit will do so because they have had a change of circumstances. In such cases claimants will continue to have their new welfare support entitlement calculated on the rules of their new benefit.</p><p> </p><p>DWP continues to evaluate this policy as it is delivered.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 130770 question first answered 12/03/2018 11:56:39 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George