Windrush Generation: Compensation
(asked on 22nd June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether payments under the Windrush Compensation Scheme count towards the savings limit of universal credit and other means-tested benefits.
This question was answered on 1st July 2020
Any payment of capital from the Windrush Compensation Scheme or the Windrush Exceptional Payments Scheme will be disregarded indefinitely for the calculation of capital in Universal Credit and other means-tested benefits.