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<p>The Department works closely with the Department for Education (DfE) to assist
it deliver its Free School Meals policy.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has a Service Level Agreement
(SLA) with DfE over the transfer of data from the Universal Credit system to the Passported
Benefits Eligibility checking system. Data is received from the Universal Credit system,
on a daily basis. This means that the data is at most 23 hours and 59 minutes old,
depending on when the claimant / agent last updated the record.</p><p> </p><p>If a
claimant has an open Universal Credit full service claim their take home pay is compared
against the earning threshold. As a safeguard for claimants who have fluctuating earnings,
the take-home pay is checked going back up to 3 months. In these cases, the take-home
pay is aggregated to give an amount for use in the eligibility calculation.</p><p>
</p><p>DfE have processes in place to inform and deal with delays to ensure no claimants
lose out as a result of this.</p>
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