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Stephen Timms

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Gender Male
Age 68
Web site www.stephentimms.org.uk
Date of birth July 29,1955
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Oldham
United Kingdom
SpouseLeng Lim
Office Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Party Labour Party
Job Politician
Education Sixth Form College, Farnborough
Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
BooksBroadband Communications: Market Strategies
Broadband Communications: The Commercial Impact
Child Poverty Bill
The Faith Collection
Networked Multimedia: The Business Opportunity
Commercial Expert Systems in Europe
ISDN: Customer Premises Equipment
Official site parliament.uk
Position Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1997
Previous positionShadow Minister for Employment of Government of the United Kingdom (2010–2015)
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Sir Stephen Creswell Timms is a British politician who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2006 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament for East Ham, formerly Newham North East, since 1994.

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... Pushed again on the cause of the issue by Labour s Stephen Timms, Ms Rudd added: I have acknowledged that people having difficulty accessing the money on time as one of the causes of the growth in food banks, but we have tried to address that...

Coronavirus: Tell us your stories of performance claims, say MPs

Feb 16,2020 2:56 am

MPs have asked the people, tell of their experiences, to apply to attempts, while the Corona-Virus outbreak.

want to hear The Work and pensions Committee, from the first time, the applicant, as well as those who already have The System .

About A Million people have applied for universal credit benefits between the ages of 16. March and 3. April.

the Committee Chairman to Stephen Timms said The Number of new claims was "unprecedented".

The Labour MP added that The Committee would like to hear from people "better understand the problems of people who rely on benefits".

The Explosion of the plaintiff to follow the government's measures to limit the spread of The Virus , including closing of pubs, restaurants and minor shops.

"Extraordinary demand"

The latest figures for universal credit claimants were revealed in a letter to the members from The Top civil servant in The Department for work and pensions (DWP).

In The Correspondence , Peter Schofield, said The Department would normally receive approximately 55,000 claims in a "normal week".

He added that the DWP was in front of the "extraordinary demand" and received 5. 8 calls in The Last Nine Days of March.

This contain 1. 8m calls between 23 and 27 March, He Said , in addition to 2. 2m on 30 March and the other 1. 8m at 31. March.

He Said The Department was to manage the transfer of employees to the volume of calls, but warned it will take "some time" to reduce the pressure on The System .

Universal credit is a consolidated monthly payment for those of working age, through a variety of existing benefits including income-based working parents in search of money, housing benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit".

In October, 2019, there were 2. 6 million universal credit claimants - just over a third of them were in work.

Mr Timms said: “The DWP's front-line employees to make a Herculean effort to cope with the unprecedented number of new claims for universal credit, and we would like to thank you for everything you do, in such a difficult time.

“I know you are focused on making sure that people who need money urgently, you get your payments as quickly as possible.

"We Are very interested to hear about specific problems to demand, benefits, and also the more General question of whether people are getting enough money for themselves and their families in these infinitely heavy Days . "



coronavirus pandemic, universal credit

Source of news: bbc.com

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