Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what arrangements are in place to allow for the payment of universal credit to those without a bank or building society account; and if he will make a statement.

For those without a bank or building society, the Department can pay Universal Credit into a Credit Union current account, Post Office card account or by Simple Payment.

A Simple Payment is a cash transfer service, which has been designed to pay those people who DWP cannot pay into any type of account.