Pausing Advance Payment deductions from UC
Frank Zola made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Work and Pensions
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
It was suggested at the recent Work and Pensions Committee virtual meeting that UC and or JCP staff had the ability to manually stop or pause deductions of UC Advance Payments from claimants UC payments. Please provide details of the internal operational processes that are followed to pause the AP deductions, who follows them with their Job Titles and copies of screenshots that show what parts of the UC system are used to implement the pause. Together with copies of internal guidance and policies on these matters.
Is it possible to pause AP deductions for more than 3 months? Noting:
"You can ask for your repayments to be delayed for up to 3 months if you can’t afford them. This is only allowed in exceptional circumstances."
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/universal-cr...
What are the "exceptional circumstances"?
Accept covid19 crisis and redeployment of DWP staff and resources, means the DWP will need more time to respond to this information request.
Yours faithfully,
Frank Zola
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