Universal Credit

(asked on 15th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2014, Official Report, column 668W, on universal credit, what definition he uses for lowest earning families; and what criteria he uses to assess members of this category.


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Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 21st July 2014

Healthy Start currently supports approximately half a million pregnant women and children under four in families claiming income based benefits and tax credits. Our intention is to ensure that a broadly similar number, and range, of universal credit families will qualify for Healthy Start in future. We are currently discussing with the Department for Work and Pensions the options for achieving this, whilst also ensuring that the solution is simple, fair, and easy to understand for families.

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