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Commons Chamber
Social Security - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) That 6.7% increase means that universal credit will retain its purchasing power in the broader context - Speech Link
2: Alison McGovern (Lab - Wirral South) We have had universal credit for a decade or more, and I have been in this House long enough to have - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) They are truly harrowing findings.I want to say something about universal credit, which was also raised - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) The letter was dated seven days ago and it told me that the move to universal credit expansion into North - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

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: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) I have already set out that we have universal credit, as the hon. - Speech Link
4: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) nearly three years since the ombudsman said that the Department for Work and Pensions had committed maladministration - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Does the Minister accept that raising the universal credit basic rate is critical to tackling child poverty - Speech Link
2: Marco Longhi (Con - Dudley North) The ombudsman ruled that there was maladministration. - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) My constituent’s universal credit payments have been stopped over Christmas for two years running, because - Speech Link
4: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) The way that universal credit works means that work coaches can use their flexibility, but if a payment - Speech Link

Select Committee
Correspondence with the Secretary of State relating to Benefit levels in the UK

Correspondence Feb. 21 2024

Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: The Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Universal Credit regulations 2013/2015 determine the conditionality

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Independent Case Examiner

Dec. 14 2023

Source Page: Department for Communities (NI) complaints: Annual report by the Independent Case Examiner 2022 to 2023
Document: Independent Case Examiner for the Department of Communities (NI): annual report 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 (PDF)

Found: establishing if we can accept the complaint for examination, which means the complaint must be about maladministration

Select Committee
Department for Work and Pensions, and Department for Work and Pensions

Oral Evidence May. 22 2024

Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: You do see that within pension credit. You also see it within Universal Credit.

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Portfolio Question Time - Wed 06 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: MacGregor, Fulton (SNP - Coatbridge and Chryston) shortages, Brexit and the impact of inflation on goods and services due to the current UK Government’s maladministration - Speech Link
2: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) There is no UK equivalent of the Scottish child payment and no essentials guarantee for people on universal - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Local Government and Housing Directorate

Dec. 14 2023

Source Page: Domestic abuse leavers fund- Child Poverty Action Group: FOI release
Document: FOI 202300372286 - Information Released - CPAG (PDF)

Found: credit • The two-child limit and benefit cap reduce awards of universal credit considerably

Written Question
Universal Credit: Maladministration
Monday 27th November 2023

Asked by: Stephen Timms (Labour - East Ham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November to Question 17 on Universal Credit, if he will estimate the number of working Universal Credit recipients who received an incorrect Universal Credit payment as a result of an employer's incorrect real time information submission to HMRC in the latest month for which data is available.

Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

For the last 12 months, UC has received around 29 million RTI feeds to calculate UC payments for those households with employed earnings. Where errors affect UC entitlement, payments are corrected as part of normal business.

Public Bill Committees
Renters (Reform) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Karen Buck (Lab - Westminster North) The introduction of universal credit has completely taken that link away. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) Q Dr Rugg, I want to follow up on the maladministration of universal credit, and some of the difficulties - Speech Link