Universal Credit

(asked on 19th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on work incentives of the changes to universal credit work allowances announced in the Budget.


Answered by
Lord Freud Portrait
Lord Freud
This question was answered on 29th October 2015

Universal Credit (UC) has been designed to reduce poverty and ensure work pays. This remains the case following the Summer Budget.


The Budget made a number of changes that could have an effect on work incentives, such as introducing of the National Living Wage, that will help ensure this country moves from a low wage, high tax society to a high wage, low tax society.

Reticulating Splines