Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) will increase from £306.85 to £332.95 a week.I turn now to universal credit, jobseeker’s allowance and - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) uprating the basic State Pension, new State Pension and Pension Credit standard minimum guarantee for - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We will reform universal credit, jobcentres and employment support so that people can get a better job - Speech Link
4: None Since 6 April 2017, families can claim support as universal credit and child tax credit for up to two - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Duncan Baker (Con - North Norfolk) She has come to my office, which has helped with universal credit, PIP and the new-style employment and - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) , but I know from the Public and Commercial Services union that one in four universal credit managers - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) credit ran out of food in January and could not afford more, and 2.4 million universal credit claimants - Speech Link
4: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) One finding is that, of the people receiving both universal credit and housing benefit in Arfon, 35% - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) cuts, the UK Government would limit child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children - Speech Link
2: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) need to fundamentally reform all aspects of universal credit and have an overarching UK Government anti-poverty - Speech Link
3: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) The entire purpose of the welfare state was to create a safety net from the cradle to the grave, but - Speech Link
4: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) that there are, of course, other pernicious aspects of universal credit. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool, Wavertree) If he will make an estimate of the number of in-work universal credit claimants that have had payments - Speech Link
2: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool, Wavertree) She works as a nurse and is in receipt of universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) Will the Secretary of State finally come clean and admit that welfare reforms are about denying vital - Speech Link
4: Alison McGovern (Lab - Wirral South) introduced universal credit to help people into work. - Speech Link
5: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) I have already set out that we have universal credit, as the hon. - Speech Link
Asked by: Beth Winter (Labour - Cynon Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to increase statutory sick pay in line with the living wage.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Government has already increased the rate of SSP this year, in April the rate of SSP was increased by 6.7% to £116.75. This represents a £20 per week increase in the rate of SSP since 2021.
SSP is just one part of our welfare safety net and our wider Government offer to support people in times of need. Anybody who is on a low level of income during the period that they are sick and who requires further financial support may be able to claim Universal Credit, depending on their personal circumstances.
Report Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Twenty-Ninth Report - Progress in implementing Universal Credit HC 458 Report
Apr. 10 2024
Source Page: Fraudsters behind £53.9 million benefits scam brought to justice in country’s largest benefit fraud caseFound: Credit claims worth £53,901,959.82.
Feb. 06 2024
Source Page: Eight million households to receive £2.5 billion Cost of Living supportFound: Mel Stride, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, said: The economy has turned a corner, and with
Asked by: John McDonnell (Labour - Hayes and Harlington)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to increase statutory sick pay for people unable to work while living with cancer.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Government has already increased the rate of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) this year, in April the rate of SSP was increased by the September 2023 CPI of 6.7% to £116.75. This represents a £20 per week increase in the rate of SSP since 2021.
SSP is just one part of our welfare safety net and our wider Government offer to support people in times of need. Anybody who is on a low level of income during the period that they are sick and who requires further financial support may be able to claim Universal Credit, depending on their personal circumstances.
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Wirral South)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions Ministers from his Department have attended the Universal Credit Programme Board in each year since 1 January 2018.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
In line with best practice in Government Projects, Ministers are not normally members of Project Boards for projects in the GMPP. This is because under the Ministerial Code, SROs have direct accountability for the delivery of their projects progress to Parliament. The Minister for Welfare Delivery attended the UC Programme Board once in 2020 and twice in 2021.