Philippa Whitford – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philippa Whitford on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to (a) claimants of universal credit while the benefit is assessed and dispatched and (b) people becoming unemployed from low-paid and temporary jobs who have no redundancy payments or other income.

Priti Patel

Advance payments of up to 50% of their Universal Credit award are available to all new Universal Credit claimants who are in financial need.