Asked by: Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people who will receive the second cost of living payment on the Isle of Wight.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The estimated number of benefit units eligible for the means-tested benefit cost of living payment in the Isle of Wight Westminster parliamentary constituency is 17,900.
There are an estimated 18,500 individuals who are eligible for the disability cost of living payment in the Isle of Wight constituency.
The Department for Work and Pensions has published an Impact Assessment on the Cost of Living Payments. Further information can be found here: SocSec(AdditionalPayments)IA.pdf (parliament.uk)
The pensioner cost of living payment will be delivered through the Winter Fuel Payment. The number of Winter Fuel Payments awarded in the Isle of Wight constituency in winter 2021 to 2022 was 37,903. Statistics for the Winter of 2022 to 2023 will be published in September 2023. A full breakdown of Winter Fuel statistics can be found here: Winter Fuel Payment statistics for winter 2020 to 2021 and winter 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the time taken to (a) conduct health assessments and (b) implement the results in the Employment and Support Allowance scheme.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper explored how the benefits system can better meet the needs of claimants now and in the future by improving claimant experience of our services, enabling independent living and improving employment outcomes.
We recognise that improvements could be made to the assessment process and we plan to publish a Health and Disability White Paper later this year.
Asked by: Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claimants were categorised as self-employed in the latest period for which that data is available.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
In August 2020, the number of self-employed people claiming Universal Credit and required to report self-employed income, stood at 746,000.
This represented 13.4% of all people claiming Universal Credit.
Notes:
Volumes are rounded to the nearest thousand
Asked by: Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of universal credit claimants who will be subject to the minimum income floor when the relaxation ends on that threshold on 13 November 2020.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Information requested on the minimum income floor is not available.