| Heading: |
Universal Credit: Repayments |
| Question ID: |
1798545 |
| UIN: |
49160 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5138 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ian Roome
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| Asking Member handle: |
IanRoomeMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@IanRoomeMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the rate of clawback on Universal Credit on people employed with (a) irregular and (b) low incomes. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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: |
The government is committed to a sustainable, long-term approach to drive up opportunity and drive down poverty across the UK. As announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn Budget, a new Fair Repayment Rate has now been introduced from 30 April 2025, reduc... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |