Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to alter the Universal Credit assessment and payment process to prevent repayments being demanded after the recalculation of a person's earnings and sick pay but before their next payment is due.

There are no plans to change the Universal Credit (UC) assessment and payment process. Changes made to a claimant’s earnings after an assessment period has ended, would generate an overpayment at the end of the following assessment period. The overpayment would be relevant to the period in which it occurred.