Question follow-through · 34940
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to require periodic redeclaration of circumstances every six months for Universal Credit claimants from April 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to require periodic redeclaration of circumstances every six months for Universal Credit claimants from April 2025.
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
As announced at Autumn Budget 2024, the department will prompt Universal Credit claimants to confirm whether they have had a change in circumstances that might affect their claim. Any changes in circumstances declared will be processed and verified in the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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