Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) She was told to go on to universal credit, but the people at the Department for Work and Pensions did - Speech Link
2: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) I could raise many issues about universal credit and working tax credits, but as you advised, Mr Davies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) Universal credit is designed to support people into work. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) If she will increase jobseeker’s allowance by £20 per week in line with universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) benefit overpayments during the covid-19 outbreak. - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) unfair system of universal credit? - Speech Link
5: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) For some time, the SNP has led the campaign to end the universal credit five-week wait. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) Reporting the moratorium via a new flag or code in credit files could affect a person’s credit file for - Speech Link
2: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) One area raised with us is the question of advance payments under universal credit, which currently fall - Speech Link
3: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) It is our aspiration as a Government to include all UC debts—indeed, we do include overpayments in the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) Universal credit overpayments will be included in the breathing space scheme from day one. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) taxpayer money is going only to those who are eligible, the new clause gives HMRC powers to recover overpayments - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) We can allow a more flexible labour market response by increasing the generosity of universal credit, - Speech Link
3: Claudia Webbe (IND - Leicester East) The coronavirus pandemic has further demonstrated the need for universal welfare support that will be - Speech Link
4: None credit and tax credit, removing the £16,000 universal credit saving limit, converting universal credit - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Claimants may also benefit from other changes, including the £20 increase in the universal credit standard - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Work in these industries is treated in the same way for universal credit as all other forms of self-employed - Speech Link
3: Lord Empey (UUP - Life peer) Does the Minister realise that the thresholds for universal credit mean that savings that people may - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) I understand the point that my noble friend is making, but a key principle is that universal credit should - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) Can my noble friend the Minister reassure those who may be concerned about whether universal credit payments - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) We have increased the standard rate of universal credit and working tax credit for the next 12 months - Speech Link
2: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) During this crisis, the Government have rightly stopped recovering overpayments from universal credit - Speech Link
3: Owen Paterson (CON - North Shropshire) they applied for universal credit, they automatically lost by law working tax credit. - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) The move to universal credit has been successful. - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) The fundamentals of universal credit do not change. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) Universal credit is the backstop for more than 1 million people left out of other measures. - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) This calls into question the philosophy of universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) Remove the ceilings threshold in universal credit. Crucially, scrap the five-week wait. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) The standard allowance of universal credit and working tax credit has been increased by £20 a week for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) We are removing the universal credit minimum income floor, so that self-employed workers have access - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) therefore want to speak about universal credit, picking up on some of the points made by the hon. - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Friend is making an incredibly important point about universal credit. - Speech Link
4: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) As for the handling of deductions for past debts—tax credit overpayments and that kind of thing—I hope - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) I can confirm that advances for all new universal credit claimants are now available online or by phone - Speech Link