Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

(asked on 20th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to re-deploy staff of her Department to assist with processing new applications for social security benefits during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 28th April 2020

Our priority as a Department is ensuring people get their benefit payments and that we can continue to support those who need us the most.

We are re-deploying over 10,000 staff to critical frontline services as well as recruiting additional staff to support this priority.

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