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757303

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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	Social Security Benefits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of (1) the future annual cost of ending the freeze on working-age and children's benefits, and (2) what the additional annual cost of those benefits would now be had the freeze not been implemented.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL1288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>These estimates can be derived using the published “Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Assessment of the Benefit Rate Freeze” attached.</p><p> </p><p>Using the figures published in the impact assessment for the benefit freeze, we can estimate the annual cost of ending the freeze on working-age and children’s benefits. Assuming the freeze was ended after 2017/18 (such that savings from 2017/18 onwards are constant at £0.9bn), the annual cost of ending the freeze would be £2.7bn by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>Assuming the freeze ends after 2017/18, the additional annual cost to working-age and children’s benefits had the freeze not been implemented is £0.9bn per annum.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/09/2017 15:19:43 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name Welfare Reform and Work Bill Impact Assessment of the Benefit rate freeze.pdf title Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Impact Assessment
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

757847

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the implications for his policies on waiting times for (a) employment and support allowance, (b) jobseeker's allowance and (c) other out-of-work benefits are of the findings of the report, Financial insecurity, food insecurity and disability, published by the Trussell Trust in June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	8678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>On 10<sup>th</sup> July I met with the Trussell Trust to discuss their report.</p><p>Waiting days are an unpaid period at the start of a new claim to benefit, where a claimant has no entitlement to Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), but must continue to meet the relevant benefit conditions.</p><p>Not all claimants are required to serve waiting days. For example claimants who have a linking claim to another benefit within 13 weeks, JSA claimants under 18 and in severe hardship or ESA claimants who are terminally ill do not serve waiting days.</p><p>The fundamental principle behind the waiting days policy is that benefits are not intended to provide financial support for very brief periods, for example when someone is between jobs or during short periods of sickness.</p><p>The application of waiting days at the outset of a new claim means that more support can be targeted at initiatives to help move people off benefits and into work, for example, measures to improve the literacy and numeracy skills of claimants and provide more resources to support lone parents to return to employment.</p><p>JSA and ESA claimants are made aware that waiting days may apply when they make their new claim. This ensures that anyone suffering hardship can seek assistance as early as possible. Anyone who makes a new claim can apply for a Short Term Benefit Advance (STBA).</p><p>STBAs provide an advance of up to 60 per cent of the value of the first full benefit payment and are repaid through deductions from subsequent benefit payments. STBAs can provide a way to smooth the impact of extending waiting days across a longer period. The offer of a STBA is subject to checks to make sure that the claimant can afford the repayments.</p><p>There are similar arrangements for other out of work benefits where waiting days apply.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2017 14:54:58 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

757325

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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	Social Security Benefits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to review the operation of the benefits system, in particular its impact on vulnerable people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL1310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The government keeps the delivery of benefits under constant review, which includes consideration of how benefits are delivered to vulnerable groups.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 14/09/2017 13:29:26 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley