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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	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 she has made of the number of advance payments that have been applied for as a result of the roll-out of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	160237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Applications for a Universal Credit advance can be made in a number of ways: in person, by telephone and also online. To identify and collate the total number of applications made would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Advances are available to all Universal Credit claimants who need them as part of a package of support to manage their transition to Universal Credit. Also, as promised last November, following the Autumn Budget, we have now introduced new functionality for advances to be claimed through a claimant’s online Universal Credit account.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/07/2018 15:42:39 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 68154 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

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registered interest
date	14/06/2018
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 plans her Department has to ensure that claimants previously in receipt of severe disability premium of employment and support allowance are not financially worse off after moving to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	153760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to supporting disabled people and continue to review the Universal Credit claimant experience and processes.</p><p> </p><p>Earlier this month we announced that claimants in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium will qualify for transitional protection when they move to Universal Credit. We will backdate these payments for those who have already moved to Universal Credit, to cover the period between their move to Universal Credit and the introduction of the new payment.</p><p> </p><p>Further detail can be accessed in the Secretary of State’s Written Statement HCWS745, made on 7 June:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-06-07/HCWS745" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-06-07/HCWS745</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/06/2018 15:31:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 64481 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

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registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there are any targets relating to the number of sanctions made against claimants of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
uin	140851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>There are no Departmental targets relating to the number of sanctions made against claimants of Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/05/2018 15:48:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 56788 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley