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, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2017 to Question 107475, on PAYE, what assessment he has made of the effect of real-time information delays on the accuracy of universal credit payment calculations.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 26th October 2017

Real Time Information (RTI) is working very well. This method of sharing information is allowing us to run a welfare system that is responsive to changes in earnings and helps us identify cases of fraud.

We are aware that a very small percentage of Universal Credit households have been affected by late reporting of RTI. Late data will only impact a Universal Credit claimant where the information is received after the date of an assessment period. Less than 1% of Universal Credit claimants raise issue about RTI information, most of the queries are resolved by explaining how the claim has been calculated.

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