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Universal Credit: Wales

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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 36706, tabled on 14 July 2022

Question

Hywel Williams
Plaid Cymru
Arfon
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to begin issuing migration notices to claimants living in Wales following the resumption of the managed migration process on the 9 May 2022.

Answer

David Rutley
Conservative
Macclesfield
Commons

Answered on

19 July 2022

The Department is currently focused on the Discovery Phase of managed migration. During this phase we will work with small numbers of existing benefit claimants from different places across the country to focus on identifying what is needed to prompt and help someone to make a claim to Universal Credit.

The first 500 notices were successfully issued in Bolton and Medway and we will now be expanding to new areas from the end of July, beginning in Cornwall.

We are committed to ensuring that Universal Credit is rolled out smoothly by the end of 2024.

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