Question follow-through · 7239
Social Security Benefits: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the annual cost of paying legacy benefits such as working tax credits and earlier iterations of Universal Credit to people in paid employment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the annual cost of paying legacy benefits such as working tax credits and earlier iterations of Universal Credit to people in paid employment.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
Precursors to Universal Credit (UC) such as Working Tax Credits (WTC) have now migrated to UC, therefore legacy payments are no longer applicable. As a result, all associated costs are captured within UC payments. For other working age benefits where clai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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