Sentence examples for a single claimant from inspiring English sources

Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) @IsabelHardman A DWP lobster pot is when a single claimant joins UC and then has kids, or gets married but stays within UC. December 9, 2013 5.54pm GMT Labour's Debbie Abrahams goes next.

Howard Shiplee, the former London Olympics executive drafted in this year to "reset" the troubled scheme, told the MPs that problems arose if a single claimant met a new partner and moved in with him or her.

The aim was to start with the most simple caseload, such as a single unemployed claimant, to see how universal credit changes the claimant's behaviour and how the IT systems work.

"Every single claimant will have a choice," he said.

The biggest single claimant?

"From there, the rollout will expand beyond the existing single claimant group, to new claims from couples and families in all of these areas.

In an attempt to bring down the bill for disability benefits, Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary in charge of welfare, commissioned the private firm Atos to test every single claimant of employment and support allowance, the successor to incapacity benefit.

It announced it had reached the "historic milestone" of making UC available to single claimants in every UK jobcentre and was preparing a phased rollout to all claimants, including families with children.

The chancellor raised the qualifying age for the shared accommodation rate (SAR), the lowest housing benefit payment, from single claimants under 25 to those under 35, in a £215m cut that reaches 62,000 households.

The whistleblower told Dispatches:"The IT works for single claimants, the straightforward cases.

For example, previously single claimants might now be living with partners with children.