Universal Credit: PAYE
(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department calculates the payment for a universal credit claimant in the event that it requires PAYE Real Time Information (RTI) and RTI data is not available.
This question was answered on 26th October 2017
If a Universal Credit claimant is working we receive details of their earnings through our Real Time Information (RTI) link into HMRC PAYE. If RTI data is not received we do not take earnings into account. If this data is not received in the following Assessment Period, payment is suspended and the claimant is asked to self-report earnings.