Universal Credit

(asked on 19th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any people claiming universal credit are subject to in-work conditionality.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 26th January 2015

Universal Credit ensures that people are better off in work – and makes it pay for people to increase their earnings through more or better paid work.

We will, for the first time, be supporting people in low-paid work to take active steps to increase their earnings.

We first need to build the evidence on what can be effective in helping people to earn more. We are therefore committed to testing and learning what works, including the role and impact of conditionality.

We will evaluate this through the first trial that will start in April 2015 to inform decisions on extending in-work conditionality.

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