Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct that receipt of previous overtime payments alongside a salary should be disregarded when determining eligibility for people seeking to claim payments under the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme.
Eligibility for the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme is based on a number of criteria, including whether an applicant is in receipt of means-tested benefits. An applicant’s salary including overtime payments is not assessed.