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date	09/07/2018
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the emails sent by the hon. Member for Slough dated (a) 31 May 2018 and (b) 3 July 2018 referenced TD4223.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	162142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>A full reply was sent by email to the hon. Member for Slough on 12.07.18.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 11:30:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

935237

registered interest
date	06/07/2018
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, what steps she is taking to ensure that the roll-out of universal credit does not result in people in rented housing being in arrears.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	161583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Research shows that many people come onto Universal Credit with pre-existing rent arrears.</p><p>We also know that arrears are usually temporary and the majority of claimants do succeed in paying their rent, managing their monthly payments and clearing their arrears over time. In our research, the proportion of Universal Credit claimants who were in arrears at the start of their claim fell by a third after four months.</p><p>We have made changes to help people financially until their first payment. Advances are available to provide financial support and these can now be repaid over a course of 12 months and can consist of up to 100 per cent of the indicative monthly award. We have also abolished waiting days and now provide 2 weeks of housing support to claimants moving to Universal Credit from Housing Benefit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 16:42:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

934514

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, for each year since 2012, what proportion of the population aged between 18 and 59 over the preceding four years were claiming working age benefits for three of those four years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL9195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>This statistic was part of a series last updated in April 2016 and has since been discontinued. It formed part of the Social Justice Outcomes Framework which was replaced by the Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators, published in April 2017. Any new statistic measuring the duration of working age benefit claims would need to incorporate Universal Credit data. As a result, the information requested is not readily available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Government still produces data on long-term worklessness and on some individual out-of-work benefit claim durations. The Office for National Statistics publishes data on children in long-term workless households and on households where all members have never worked. There is also available data on the duration of Job Seeker’s Allowance, Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance claims.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 16/07/2018 14:53:25 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

933738

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
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: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, following the High Court ruling that Universal Credit unlawfully discriminates against claimants transferring from legacy benefits resulting in the loss of Disability and Severe Disability Premium, they intend to change that guidance so that transfer to Universal Credit will not be effected until transitional protection is given.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL9125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The court found in the Department’s favour on three of the four points raised by the claimant. We will be applying to appeal on the one point that the court found against the Department.</p><p> </p><p>On 7th June, prior to the judgment, we announced changes that would help people who receive the Severe Disability Premium. These changes will form part of the Universal Credit Managed Migration and Transitional Protection Regulations which we intend to bring forward in the Autumn. The intention is that once legislation has passed, people on legacy benefits who get the Severe Disability Premium will stay on their legacy benefits until they can be managed migrated to Universal Credit, at which point transitional protection will be in pace. We will also consider retrospective protection for people previously in receipt of Severe Disability Premium who have already moved onto UC.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 16/07/2018 13:55:15 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham