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Here's what I wrote about the Bill as a Money Bill earlier. See below. Even if the Speaker does certify it as a Money Bill, the Bill could not be passed by recess. It's only two weeks away.

IMHO, this Bill does not meet Money Bill criteria. However, the status of the Bill is now up to the Speaker. His decision might not be immediate in this case. Perhaps we won't know until the Bill reaches the Lords. The House rises for recess on 24th. Here's the latest from B & W:

What happens next

At the time of writing we do not know if the bill has been certified as a money bill.  If it has not, then it will go to the Lords who can put forward amendments in the normal way.

If it is a money bill, it will still go to the House of Lords, but this is a formality.  In theory, the Lords can suggest amendments but, because it is a money bill, the government are free to simply ignore them.  After one month the bill as currently written will become law.

Well that's not as terrible as it could of been I spose 🤷.... Just need to concentrate on passing a standard WCA , you never know we may get lucky and satisfy the SCC criteria aswell , then that will take us up to when the WCA gets scrapped which should be around April time .... And let's face it that will be a big undertaking so there's a good chance we won't have anything to do with the new pip assessment until some time in 2029 , then we just will need to go from there

We don't know yet whether it has been certified as a Money Bill.

I think it means another (or maybe more than one) Bill in the future, yeh. I can't keep up tbh!

Benefits and Work Site under News - recently posted.

Universal Credit Bill listed as money bill for House of Lords

 Published: 10 July 2025

The Universal Credit Bill (formerly the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment bill) has been listed for its second reading in the House of  Lords as a money bill.

According to the UK Parliament website, the second reading and all remaining stages of the Universal Credit (Money Bill) will take place on 22 July.

This means that the Lords can suggest amendments, but the Commons can simply ignore them and the bill will become law one month after it completes all its stages in the Lords.

Along with racing through the committee, report and third reading stage of the bill in the Commons in a single session yesterday, this is another tactic by Labour to prevent any scrutiny of legislation that will take money away from hundreds of thousands of future disabled universal credit claimants.

It also makes it even harder to trust that the government will be seriously interested in the views of disabled people when the Timms review begins its work after the summer.  Genuine consultation does not seem to be something that this Labour government can bear to be involved in.

@YogiBear Thank you. Stunned. The stampede to get this through is startling. It's 48 hours before recess. The House will be empty.

EDIT: The Commons' ammendments to the Bill reduced it to such a degree that what remains could legitimately be certified as a Money Bill as it reaches the Lords: "Make provision to alter the rates of the standard allowance, limited capability for work element and limited capability for work and work-related activity element of universal credit and the rates of income-related employment and support allowance."

See my edit. I can see how it got certified now.