Question follow-through · 18708
Universal Credit: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of universal credit payment levels in the context of (a) food costs, (b) bills and (c) other essential costs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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- State Retirement Pensions: Women · 3 Jan 2025
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of universal credit payment levels in the context of (a) food costs, (b) bills and (c) other essential costs.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
No assessment has been made. Benefits increased by 6.7% in April 2024, in line with inflation. The Basic and New State Pensions were also uprated by 8.5% in line with earnings, as part of the ‘triple lock.’ We have recently announced a Fair Repayment Rate...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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