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<p>On 20<sup>th</sup> October I laid secondary 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. This 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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