EVIDENCE SESSION: Benefit delivery
9.30am, Wednesday 21 October, Wilson Room, Portcullis House
The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that can arise when benefits are delayed or underpaid include people resorting to food banks for emergency food rations.
This is the first oral evidence session for the inquiry, with organisations who offer benefits advice to claimants. The Committee will be exploring potential problems with benefit delivery and their impact on claimants, issues emerging from the roll-out of Universal Credit and possible options for improving benefit delivery processes.
Witnesses:
At 9.30 am
- Clarissa Corbisiero-Peters, National Housing Federation
- Rhiannon Sims, Citizens Advice Scotland
- Clare Jephcott and Barbara King, Islington Law Centre
At 10.15am
- Peter Hughes, Wigan and Leigh Homes
- Carmel Keddy, Derbyshire County Council
- Clare Hughes-Cross, St Mungo’s Broadway
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Committee Membership is as follows:
Frank Field (Labour, Birkenhead) (Chair); Debbie Abrahams (Labour, Oldham East and Saddleworth); Heidi Allen (Conservative, South Cambridgeshire); Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party, Paisley and Renfrewshire South); Ms Karen Buck, (Labour, Westminster North); John Glen (Conservative, Salisbury); Richard Graham (Conservative, Gloucester); Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour, South Shields); Craig Mackinlay (Conservative, South Thanet); Jeremy Quin (Conservative, Horsham); Craig Williams (Conservative, Cardiff North).
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