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date	23/07/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are their plans to address payment errors and delays for people attempting to claim Universal Credit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL9817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2018 answer text <p>Around 80 per cent of new claims are paid in full and on time. In many cases, where full payment is not made on time by the end of the first assessment period, this is as a result of unresolved issues such as: some claimants have not signed their Claimant Commitment or passed identity checks, and the others have outstanding verification issues, such as for housing and self-employed earnings. Whilst their verification is on-going, many of these claimants receive a part payment for those elements of the claim that have been resolved. Within five weeks of the payment due date, 95 per cent of claims are paid in full.</p><p>DWP continues to monitor payment timeliness and we have made changes to improve payment timeliness. For example, we have built processes into the system to make it easier and quicker for people to verify information such as their housing costs.</p><p> </p><p>Advances are available to provide financial support until the first payment 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><p>If a claim has been delayed due to error, DWP can also consider awarding an ex-gratia payment, as set out in the guide of Financial Redress for Maladministration, available on gov.uk, and which is attached.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 31/07/2018 13:50:40 question first ministerially corrected 31/07/2018 14:41:10 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name HL9817 Financial Redress for Maladministration FR.PDF title Financial Redress for Maladministration previous answer version 72633 answering member printed Baroness Buscombe answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

758890

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	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 estimate his Department has made of the number of people receiving tax credits who will be receiving universal credit at the completion of full service roll-out.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	9616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>Based on the existing tax credit data and take-up we estimate that around <del class="ministerial">5.8</del> <ins class="ministerial">3.8 </ins>million people receiving Tax Credits will be receiving Universal Credit at the completion of Full Service roll-out.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds previous answer version 11131 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds 11369 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds question first answered 13/09/2017 15:12:46 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 20:43:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

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registered interest
date	06/12/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2016 to Question 55887, how many full-time equivalent members of staff his Department has employed to work on the design and implementation of universal credit in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15 and (f) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	56404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Data on reports of pension scams is collected via Action Fraud. However, the government, working with the City of London Police and other partners as part of Project Bloom, is aware that many scams in the UK, and the true extent of associated losses, go un-reported. The true extent of losses may also only become apparent some time after the initial report and increases in fraud reports could be due to a number of factors, for example increased industry reporting or rising awareness amongst the public due to high profile information campaigns.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government takes the issue of pension scams very seriously, which is why, on 5 December 2016 we launched a public consultation on a package of measures aimed at tackling pension scams. This included a proposed definition of pension fraud to allow better monitoring and data collection on pension scams.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government will continue to work closely with the City of London Police and other Project Bloom partners to help local forces and other agencies raise awareness on pension scams and encourage more people to report scamming activity and losses.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The table below breaks down the location of the victim of reported pension scams collated by Action Fraud over the last two financial years.</del></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Location of victims of reported pension scams</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Financial year 2014/15</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Financial year 2015/16 to date </strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Scotland</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">27</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">17</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Rest of the UK</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">921</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">446</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial">This information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</ins></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/12/2016 15:32:39 question first ministerially corrected 12/12/2016 16:11:12 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 25819 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams