Will the Secretary of State look at the system that encourages claimants to take out a new enterprise allowance to go into business, but one year down the line, when they might still be building up that business, the system assumes that they are earning a minimum amount? A Kilmarnock couple came to my surgery on Friday to say that they have been left with absolutely no income because their UC assessment has assumed a level of wages that they are not making. They are in hardship, and it is quite possible that businesses will fail as a consequence of this system. Does she agree that that is another example of why universal credit is not fit for purpose?
Universal Credit: Managed Migration
Proceeding contribution from
Alan Brown
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 July 2019.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Universal Credit: Managed Migration.
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