Universal Credit: Self-employment Income Support Scheme

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the income effect of the Self Employed Income Support Scheme on people who are also claiming universal credit.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 4th June 2020

We treat the Self Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) payments as self-employed earnings and take them into account in the month in which it is received.

The Department has not made an assessment of the income effect of the SEISS on people who are also claiming universal credit.

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