Universal Credit five‑week first payment wait

1 release from 1 party, 23 September 2024.

Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication

1. Five-week Universal Credit wait forcing some to turn to illegal money lenders, says Mulholland, as Alliance launch policy document

   • Alliance
   • 23 September 2024
   • Policy proposal
   • Criticises the northern ireland executive, a minister or department
   • Contains a proposal

   Alliance MLA Sian Mulholland says the five‑week delay for a first Universal Credit payment is pushing claimants into illegal money lenders, hunger and mental distress, and unveils the ‘No More Time to Wait’ document proposing wider crisis grants, cheaper advance repayments, a two‑week child tax‑free

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• Sinn Féin: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• SDLP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.

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