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1143160

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	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 an assessment of the compatibility of her Department’s policy of universal credit being digital by default with her Department’s Debt Management office being contactable only by (a) fax and (b) post rather than by secure email.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	284838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Currently, most claimants who want to contact Debt Management call via one of the free phone numbers. However, we recognise the need for an online service to allow claimants to more easily manage any debts that they may have. Therefore, we are developing the Digital Debt Service as a replacement for our current Debt Manager system.</p><p>This new system will allow claimants to view details of any debts they have (including the current balance) and make repayments online.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/09/2019 12:22:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1148389

	registered interest
	date	04/10/2019
	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	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 universal credit claimants who are eligible for (a) new style employment and support allowance and (b) new style jobseeker's allowance who would receive more money from one of those benefits than from universal credit are able to have their award backdated to when they made their claim.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	294681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Universal Credit replaces six benefits with one, to simplify the system and make work pay. As a result, people claiming Universal Credit move into work faster, stay in work longer and spend more time looking to increase their earnings. Universal Credit also provides more help with childcare costs, a dedicated Work Coach and scraps the 16, 24 and 30 hour ‘cliff edges’.</p><p> </p><p>Under the legacy system £2.4 billion of welfare benefits did not get paid at all because claimants could not navigate the complexity of the system. Universal Credit is putting this right, ensuring this money goes to 700,000 claimants who need it.</p><p> </p><p>Claims may be backdated, by up to one calendar month, in limited circumstances for vulnerable claimants who may be delayed in claiming Universal Credit through no fault of their own. Claims may also be backdated in specific circumstances when a couple separates to ensure that there is no gap in entitlement between the couple claim and the new claim made by a single claimant.</p><p> </p><p>For new style Employment and Support Allowance, a claimant has three months following the qualifying date to claim.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provides benefit eligibility information to help people make decisions surrounding benefits to which they may be entitled, along with details about how to claim them. This is available through Jobcentre Plus offices and via the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/10/2019 10:48:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1150325

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	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	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 it is her Department's policy for Jobcentre staff proactively to inform universal credit claimants that they should make a claim to new-style ESA or new-style JSA if they are likely to be eligible.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	1598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to questions 43 and 482 on 21 October.</p><p /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/10/2019 14:34:50 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1149348

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	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 universal credit is paid pro-rata when a claimant becomes eligible part way through an assessment period for state pension credit but not when a claimant becomes eligible for the state pension without state pension credit.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>This measure ensures that there is no gap in entitlement for people who rely on means-tested benefits, such as Pension Credit. It provides a smooth transition between working-age and pension-age income related welfare support.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/10/2019 14:46:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami