| Heading: |
Universal Credit |
| Question ID: |
1806174 |
| UIN: |
54619 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
415 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Fabian Hamilton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Fabian Hamilton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the loss of transitional protection under Universal Credit for claimants who form a couple, including where one partner acts as a carer. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
Transitional Protection is designed to give customers notified to move to Universal Credit time to adjust. It is not intended to permanently replicate legacy benefits and ends when there is no longer a meaningful comparison between a household’s final leg... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |