Question follow-through · 92427
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on working with expert stakeholders to review the impact of four-weekly employer pay cycles on Universal Credit payments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on working with expert stakeholders to review the impact of four-weekly employer pay cycles on Universal Credit payments.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
We are committed to reviewing Universal Credit, to make sure it is doing the job we want it to, to make work pay and tackle poverty. As part of the review we have considered the impact that fluctuating incomes including those paid on a four-weekly cycle h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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