Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that claimants with a (a) corporate appointeeship and (b) corporate deputy can claim Universal Credit.
The Department is currently designing a process which will allow claims to be made and managed by corporate appointees and deputies. In the meantime it is working with corporate appointees and deputies on a case by case basis, to ensure continuity of payment where claimants are migrating to Universal Credit from an existing benefit, and to facilitate new claims so that payment is made without delay.