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answer › question first answered	2021-01-13T14:34:58.717Z
min answer › question first answered	2019-05-14T14:22:06.727Z
tabling member constituency	Arfon
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions

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08/01/2021

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Social Security Benefits: Wales

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question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates her Department has made of the number of people who have had welfare payments stopped due to being in receipt of the Welsh Government’s special payment scheme for social care staff.

tabling member constituency

Arfon

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Hywel Williams

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is ministerial correction

date of answer

13/01/2021

answer text

<p>For DWP purposes the payments made under the Welsh Government’s special payments scheme for social care staff are treated as earnings and are included in welfare benefit calculations. The impact on an individual claimant will depend on their household circumstances and the amount and type of welfare payments they are receiving. For income related benefits their award is calculated on the basis of the set benefit rate against money coming in to ensure fairness of treatment for all claimants against the money they have available. This means that as earnings increase the welfare payment reduces or stops. This is a long-standing principle of means-tested benefits.</p>

answering member constituency

North Swindon

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Justin Tomlinson

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13/01/2021 14:34:58

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label	Biography information for Hywel Williams