Question follow-through · 90547
Rented Housing: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the impact of 53 week rent-years on rent payment schedules for Universal Credit claimants; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that pay
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the impact of 53 week rent-years on rent payment schedules for Universal Credit claimants; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that pay
18 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2025
Answer published
Universal Credit always converts weekly amounts to monthly sums using 52 weeks. The legitimacy of this approach was confirmed by the High Court having been tested via a judicial review. Every five or six years, weekly tenants may have a rent charging year...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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