Universal Credit: Coronavirus

(asked on 8th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the income not received by his Department as a result of the suspension of deductions from Universal Credit during the covid-19 pandemic for the first 12 months from the start of that suspension.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
This question was answered on 13th March 2023

The impact of pausing deductions resulted in debt recovery being delayed rather than lost.

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