The Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Dr Thérèse Coffey MP, has responded to a series of questions regarding the managed migration process for 2.6 million legacy benefit claimants to Universal Credit (UC), to be completed by the end of 2024.
Stephen Timms MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee wrote to the DWP boss in April highlighting a series of concerns ahead of the managed migration rollout which restarted on May 9.
The eight questions included asking for a guarantee that current claims would not be stopped until payments for Universal Credit were established and what additional support measures or reasonable adjustments are being made for people with a disability during the managed migration process.
Dr Coffey responded last month, but before directly addressing points raised in the letter, she wrote: “As the published impact analyses have shown, UC is more generous than the system it is replacing (and indeed this version of UC is more generous than the one debated in 2018-19).
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