Dedicated case managers for Universal Credit claimants

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

In an answer to a Parliamentary question the Minister of State for employment indicated:

“Every Universal Credit claimant in Sheffield has a dedicated case manager based in the Universal Credit Service Centre in Makerfield.” (HC Deb, 10 December 2018, cW).

I would like to understand the roll of the case manager in administering a family’s Universal Credit claim. The experience of clients with UC is that replies in their journal from the service centre are from different people each time rather than a single case manager.

• Could you confirm that each UC claimant has a dedicated case manager allocated to them?
• Could I have any documents describing this role such as the current job description, person specification and pay scales?

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Hucklesby

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Stephen Hucklesby

Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,

It appears that my query relating to dedicated case managers for Universal Credit claimants has not received a response within the statutory 20 days specified by law. This query received an automated response from your Department on 13 December. Can you confirm that a reply is imminent?

Yours sincerely,

Stephen Hucklesby

Stephen Hucklesby

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I submitted an FOI uder the heading "Dedicated case managers for Universal Credit claimants" on 13 December. This was submitted via WhatDoTheyKnow.com and I recievd an automated response from your Department confirming receipt. After 20 days on 17 January I followed up with your Deaprtment to seek a response. The response is now long overdue.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...

I would be grateful for an urgent response. Given the length of time over which this request has been outstanding I will be escalating this to the Information Commissioner on 1 March should I not receive a response before then.

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Hucklesby

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Dear Stephen Hucklesby,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 13
December.

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DWP Operations FOI Team