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	date	14/01/2020
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to allow postgraduate university students to claim universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	3218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>Most full time students in education, including those undertaking postgraduate studies, do not qualify for Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Students are able to access funding to support their education courses through various loans and grants, which are the responsibility of the Department for Education. It is important that Universal Credit does not duplicate this support, which is designed for their needs unlike the social security system.</p><p> </p><p>Exceptions are made where students have additional needs that are not met through the student support system. These provisions already allow a person undertaking a full-time postgraduate course of study to have entitlement to Universal Credit if they satisfy one of the exceptions or, where the course is not full-time, it is considered to be compatible with any work related requirements placed upon them.</p><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/01/2020 12:34:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

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	date	06/07/2021
	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, for what reason (a) statutory maternity pay is treated as earned income and (b) maternity allowance is treated as unearned income for the purposes of calculating universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	28194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>Universal Credit is a means tested system of support and where an individual claims Universal Credit, their award is adjusted to take account of any other financial support that the claimant is already receiving – including earnings, income and benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Maternity Allowance is a benefit paid by the State which is unearned income for Universal Credit purposes. Unearned income that is available to help meet daily living costs is taken fully into account in determining the amount of Universal Credit that an individual can be paid. As such, in determining the amount of Universal Credit that is available, Maternity Allowance is deducted pound for pound from the total value of the award.  This principle applies to other benefits, such as new style Jobseeker’s Allowance and new style Employment and Support Allowance. <br></p><p>Maternity Pay (SMP) is more akin to earnings and is treated as a form of earnings in common with other statutory payments paid by employers. As a result, when adjusting the Universal Credit award, as with other earnings SMP is subject to the work allowance and tapering rules that are built into Universal Credit. Claimants retain 37p for every pound of earnings (or more if they are entitled to a work allowance).</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/07/2021 13:05:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis