Question follow-through · 85255
Universal Credit: Performance Related Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing recipients of universal credit to receive performance based bonuses without penalty.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing recipients of universal credit to receive performance based bonuses without penalty.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
No assessment has been made. A Universal Credit award is calculated on the basis of the set benefit rate against money coming in to ensure fairness of treatment for all customers against the money that they have earned. This means as earnings increase Uni...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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