Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 15th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy that in circumstances where the automatic identification process has identified two wage payments in one assessment period, her Department's staff can assign one of those two payments to an earlier assessment period.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 25th October 2021

As part of our ongoing commitment to make the Universal Credit process as simple as possible, an automatic identification process was implemented in July this year. This allows the Department to assign earnings to the correct assessment period without any claimant intervention. This ensures benefits are paid without interruption in the vast majority of circumstances.

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