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date	14/12/2017
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, whether he has received any representations on technical and administration problems regarding the transfer of claimants from employment and support allowance to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	119738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Our Ministerial Correspondence Team has not received any letters relating to claimants facing technical or administrative problems when transferring from Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) to Universal Credit.</p><p>However, Universal Credit Programme colleagues have received representations from various customer support groups seeking clarification of the ESA to UC journey for their service users. These concerns have been raised informally at engagement events as well as through more formal routes into the Programme.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, the Department has worked to produce a set of communications, to help local partnership managers better explain the ESA to UC journey to our stakeholders.</p><p>In addition we are improving the learning for work coaches and case managers to better understand the process and how to support claimants effectively.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/12/2017 15:41:04 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

806670

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the change in the real terms value of the maximum amount of benefit entitlement as a result of inflation since the introduction of the benefit cap in November 2016.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	119746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Work and Pensions Secretary of State has a duty to review the Lower Benefit Cap levels once in each Parliament with regard to the national economic situation and any other matters he considers relevant, as set out in the 2016 Welfare Reform and Work Act. New lower and tiered Benefit Cap rates were introduced from November 2016 prior to the election in June 2017. We intend to review the Lower Benefit Cap during this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>For context, outside of London, around 4 in 10 households have net earnings less than the £20,000 cap level. In London around 4 in 10 households have net earnings of less than the £23,000 cap level.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2017 16:39:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen