Universal Credit

(asked on 5th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 212414, by which means universal credit is calculated in cases where a claimant's circumstances change, so that the existing IT system does not have the functionality to complete the claimant's entitlement; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Mark Harper Portrait
Mark Harper
Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 10th November 2014

The existing IT has functionality to process changes of circumstances in Universal Credit and the majority of changes are automatically administered through to the Universal Credit award. There are a small number of complex circumstances where an agent will record this information on the system and then the functionality will automatically apply this change to the award.

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