PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Universal Credit (19 May 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of excluding tax rebates from universal credit earnings assessments.
Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)
Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)
Answer
Repayments of income tax normally occur through recalculations of tax paid during a previous tax year when a claimant was in any paid work, thus repayments of income tax are taken into account as earnings in the calculation of Universal credit for the month in which they are repaid.
Any repayments will be treated as capital and follow normal capital rules.
Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
8 June 2020
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