Question follow-through · 39190
Living Wage: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason there is an age differential between the national living wage age band and the lower universal credit band.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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- Poverty: Children · 9 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason there is an age differential between the national living wage age band and the lower universal credit band.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
Young people in work typically earn less than those over 25 and are also more likely to live in someone else’s household, with lower living costs. It is not inconsistent to maintain different rates of Universal Credit while moving to a single rate of the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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