Universal Credit

(asked on 24th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to (a) claimants of universal credit while the benefit is assessed and dispatched and (b) people becoming unemployed from low-paid and temporary jobs who have no redundancy payments or other income.


Answered by
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Priti Patel
This question was answered on 3rd March 2016

Advance payments of up to 50% of their Universal Credit award are available to all new Universal Credit claimants who are in financial need.

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