Universal Credit Roll-out: Nottingham
Debate between Madeleine Moon and Lilian Greenwood(6 years ago)
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Mrs Madeleine Moon (in the Chair)
Order. I am afraid that in a half-hour debate, interventions from the Front Bench are not permitted.
Lilian Greenwood
I am sure we have all heard what the Minister has said. Of course we welcome the fact that more people are getting into work, but many of the cases that we deal with in our constituencies are of people who are on universal credit not because they are out of work, but because they are in work and simply not earning enough to support their families. Many of the ways in which universal credit works do not support people who are in work, so people who have a fixed pay date but get paid early one month because the date falls on a weekend or a bank holiday find that they get two pay sessions in their universal credit assessment period and lose their universal credit altogether. Why is the Minister not addressing those concerns for people who are in work but not earning enough to be out of poverty?