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| Question ID: |
1806456 |
| UIN: |
54985 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5072 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Andrew Snowden
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| Asking Member handle: |
A_J_Snowden
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@A_J_Snowden
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2025 to Question 51543 on Cost of Living: Fylde, how the new Fair Repayment Rate for Universal Credit debt deductions is being implemented; and how this will ensure that |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-04 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
The Fair Repayment Rate was implemented from 30 April 2025. This measure reduced the overall deductions cap taken from the Universal Credit standard personal allowance from 25% to 15% enabling approximately 1.2 million UC households retain, on average, an... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |