Universal Credit earnings threshold.

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

What are the earnings thresholds for Universal Credit (UC) from January 2016?

As applicable to Single people, couples and families. What date has been set for the earnings thresholds to be fully implemented?

For anyone with full in-work UC conditions, earning say £400 a month and getting around £500 UC as a single person, what sanctions can or do apply to them if they did not make any attempt to

[a] increase working hours?
[b] increase rate of pay?
[c] find an additional job/work? or
[d] move to a different job with higher earnings?

Previously you have stated that the earning threshold has been set at £330 a month for a single person and £525 a month for a couple (based on gross taxable pay). What is it now and who decides what the threshold is or can be? Please send me the regulations or memos or orders that stipulate what the earning threshold is, with the names of who issued them and details of what legal basis they have.

Yours faithfully,
A. Clerk

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Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,

Thank you for your kind response.
Are the figures you provided calculated prior to your deductions of 65 pence in the pound or after the deductions?

Yours sincerely,

A. Clerk

Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,

After the 65p in the pound deduction the £338.00 is reduced to just £118.30!
Your figures are rather misleading.

Yours sincerely,

A. Clerk

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J Roberts left an annotation ()

'Universal Credit changes that come into effect next month will see thousands of claimants put under pressure to find a job or boost their existing incomes.

For people receiving Universal Credit, there is what's called an Administration Earnings Threshold (AET). Claimants with no earnings or with earnings below that threshold are placed in the Intensive Work Search regime.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that from September, the AET will be raised from £355 to £494 a month for a single claimant, or from £567 to £782 a month for a couple.'

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-...

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Daily Mail:

'Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will use mini-Budget to order more than 100,000 people with part-time jobs to work longer hours and try to make more money or face a CUT in their benefits as he seeks to fill 1.2million vacancies'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Press release

Administrative Earnings Threshold to rise for Universal Credit Jobseekers

Published 26 September 2022

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/admin...

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UIN 94756

Jonathan Ashworth

'To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 32 of the Autumn Statement 2022, CP 751, published on 17 November 2022, if she will publish a breakdown of the number of people who will be newly required to meet with work coaches in each (a) region and (b) nation of the UK.'

Guy Opperman

'No specific assessment has yet been made for the Autumn Statement announcement.'

https://questions-statements.parliament....

UIN 94758

Jonathan Ashworth

'To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 32 of the Autumn Statement 2022, CP 751, published on 17 November 2022, whether the requirement for 600,000 additional in-work Universal Credit claimants to meet with work coaches will include a rise in the Administrative Earnings Threshold.'

Guy Opperman

'There are currently no plans to raise the Administrative Earnings Threshold (AET) beyond the equivalent of 15 hours at the national living wage (NLW).'

https://questions-statements.parliament....

J Roberts left an annotation ()

'New regulations which come into force on Monday (30 January) mean more than 120,000 working people on Universal Credit across Great Britain will receive a job support boost this spring.
...

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride MP said:

"By raising the Administrative Earnings Threshold, we are forging a robust labour market building on positive changes we have already made and supporting even more people to progress in the workplace."'

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hundr...