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date	29/03/2019
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: Wales
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 29 March 2019 to Question 236387, if she will publish the number of people in each parliamentary constituency in Wales that have waited more than six weeks to receive benefit payments in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	238606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>For Universal Credit New Claims, no claimant has to go six weeks without receiving support, as advances, worth up to 100 per cent of a claimant’s indicative award, are available, if required and a two week ‘transitional housing payment’ is available to those claimants who were receiving Housing Benefit before they moved onto Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>In many cases where full payment is not made on time, it is due to unresolved issues such as: claimants not accepting their Claimant Commitment or passing identity checks, or having outstanding verification issues, such as housing costs and self-employed earnings. In order to support claimants to claim, we have taken steps to improve verification processes. For example, we have listened to feedback and built processes into the system to make it easier and quicker for people to verify their housing costs, for example through the landlord portal.</p><p> </p><p>Our latest published data shows that consistently around 85% of new claimants are being paid in full and on time.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table shows the number and proportion of UC New Claims who waited more than 6 weeks, of the claim being submitted, to receive full payment/part payment.</p><p> </p><p>The data in the table relates to New Claims where the first payment was due in November 2018.</p><p>All Claimants included in this table would have had access to an advance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/04/2019 17:29:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma attachment 1 file name New UC claims in Wales.docx title New UC claims in Wales
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1105558

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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: Wales
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 social security benefit recipients who will be transferred to universal credit in each local authority area of Wales in each year from 2019 to 2023.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	237623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Forecasts for Universal Credit below national level are not available. However, our latest estimates following the Spring Statement 2019 indicate that nationally 4.3 million claimants will move to Universal Credit from legacy benefits in total. Of these:</p><p>1.8 million claimants will move to Universal Credit by the Department and</p><p>2.5 million will be as a result of a change of circumstances</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/04/2019 14:01:16 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1105560

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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, if she will make it her policy to restore inflation-linked up-rating to working age social security benefits.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	237624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 froze the majority of working-age benefits for four tax years from 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant provisions will lapse in 2020 and the pre-existing statutory arrangements will come back into force.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/04/2019 15:50:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane