Select Committee · Work and Pensions Committee

Benefit freeze

Status: Closed Opened: 14 Feb 2019 Closed: 5 Nov 2019

It has been predicted in evidence to the Committee that the benefit freeze will “increase poverty more than any other policy”, with a family of four receiving Universal Credit over £800 a year worse off by 2020, when the freeze is set to end, “even if both parents are working full-time on the National Living …

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
11 Mar 2019 Session View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters
DateDirectionTitle
25 Apr 2019 To cttee Letter from Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, reg…
27 Mar 2019 To cttee Letter from Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, reg…
4 Mar 2019 To cttee Letter from Chair Frank Field to Secretary of State, Amber Rudd regarding Freez…