Baroness King of Bow – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness King of Bow on 2016-01-21.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 8 December 2015 (HL3997), what has been identified as the cause of the overpayment of housing benefit to those claimants migrated onto Universal Credit, and how many claimants in Tower Hamlets have been affected.

Lord Freud

We have safeguards in place to ensure an effective transition and avoid impacts on overlapping benefits.