Social Security Benefits: Separated People
Commons · Question 80829 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review benefit rules for parents with shared care.
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 20 Oct 2025
Universal Credit child element is payable to the person who is responsible for a child or young person. Where a child or qualifying young person normally lives with two or more persons who are not a couple, only one of them is to be treated as responsible...