Universal Credit: Widowed Parents Allowance

(asked on 7th June 2021) - View Source

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 potential merits of discounting Widowed Parent’s Allowance as income when calculating universal credit entitlement.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 11th June 2021

No such assessment has been made. We have no plans to change the treatment of Widowed Parents’ Allowance.

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