Decision details
Welfare Reform Update – Universal Credit Roll Out
Decision Maker: Community and Enterprise Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To provide an update on the impact of Welfare Reform on Flintshire residents.
Decision:
(a) That the Committee supports the report and ongoing work to manage the impacts that Welfare Reform have and will continue to have upon Flintshire’s most vulnerable households;
(b) That the Committee notes the changes to grant funding arrangements for Universal Support as announced by Central Government on 1 October 2018; and
(c) That the Committee writes to the Department of Work and Pensions outlining its concerns around the possible risks to the Council in proposed changes to grant funding arrangements for Universal Support.
Report author: Jen Griffiths
Publication date: 10/01/2019
Date of decision: 07/11/2018
Decided at meeting: 07/11/2018 - Community and Enterprise Overview & Scrutiny Committee
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