Universal Credit: Coronavirus

(asked on 28th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 24 September 2020 to Questions 91106 on Universal Credit: Coronavirus, for what reason she initially sought to exclude existing universal credit claimants from the £20 a week uplift to universal credit.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 7th October 2020

The £20 uplift is for everyone on Universal Credit and the Department did not consider excluding existing UC claimants.

Reticulating Splines