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date	24/02/2020
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, how many universal credit claims have been closed in each of the last 24 months for which data is available; and what the reasons were for the closure of those claims.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	20004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Information surrounding Universal Credit (UC) claim closure reasons and volumes for the last 24 months of available data are shown in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>Monthly assessment periods align to the way the majority of employees are paid and also allows UC to be adjusted each month. This means that if a claimant’s income falls, they will not have to wait several months for a rise in their UC.</p><p> </p><p>If a claimant’s earnings are sufficient enough in an assessment period to reach and/or exceed their nil earning threshold, their UC claim will be closed. Should the claimant then choose to reclaim, a claimant only has to update or confirm their information, rather than making a full new UC claim. This process allows claimants to return quickly and easily to UC by minimising the administrative burden on them.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/02/2020 18:04:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince attachment 1 file name PQ 20004 - Claim Closure (table).docx title claim closure reasons and volumes
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1180030

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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, how many universal credit claims have been (a) closed in error and (b) reopened in each of the last 24 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	20005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/02/2020 10:03:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck