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<p>I can confirm the Department’s timetable for laying legislation in response to
the Court of Appeal judgment made on 22 June in the case of Johnson, Woods, Barrett
and Stewart, which concerned claimants who receive two calendar monthly payments of
earnings in one Universal Credit assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>I am intending to
make today and lay tomorrow, secondary legislation that will allow us to reallocate
a payment of earnings reported via the Real Time Information service to a different
Universal Credit assessment period, either because it was reported in the wrong assessment
period or (in the case of calendar monthly paid employees) it is necessary to maintain
a regular payment cycle. This will mean that claimants who are paid calendar monthly
will therefore have one salary payment taken into account in each assessment period.
It also means that certain claimants will also benefit from any applicable work allowance.</p>
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