Universal Credit: Deductions
Commons · Question 48932 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 6 May 2025
Question
Asked by Kirsty Blackman
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 13 December 2023 to Question 5974 on Universal Credit: Children, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of deductions from Universal Credit payments
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 6 May 2025
Estimating the impact of deductions on trends in poverty is complex as stopping deductions would result in a build-up of arrears of the range of debts a customer has and stop vital obligations such as child maintenance being paid.The government is committ...