United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 98880
Social Security Benefits: Uprating
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29 November 2022
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6 December 2022 · Answer
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6 December 2022
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reducing the time between measuring inflation and uprating benefits.
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29 November 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reducing the time between measuring inflation and uprating benefits.
Source: Commons
6 December 2022
Answer
The DWP annual up-rating of pensions and benefits is a carefully managed process across all the Department’s IT systems to ensure around 400 new rates are implemented on time and correctly for approximately 20 million recipients, of whom 13 million are pe...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-11-29/98880
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1546589
- uk · wq-1546589 · source updated 6 December 2022