Universal Credit: how the benefits system will be overhauled by the Conservatives
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Now, with a large majority, the Prime Minister is almost guaranteed to pass any legislation in Parliament - including those regarding Universal Credit.
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Hide AdSo, here is a closer look at what the Conservatives have planned for their controversial benefit scheme.
Plans already in place
Much of what the manifesto promised was already scheduled to happen during Theresa May’s time in office, including ending the benefits freeze, which had stopped welfare payments rising in line with inflation.
The manifesto also promised a rise in the work allowance which was planned under Theresa May.
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Hide AdIt also announced that the pension triple lock, which keeps payments rising at at least 2.5 per cent per year - or higher, if average earnings or inflation rise above that - would stay.
The over-65s bus pass and the winter fuel payment will also stay in place.
New changes
But the manifesto did promise some new changes:
The party said it would continue to roll-out Universal Credit across the whole of the UK, replacing the existing benefits system
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Hide AdDisabled people whose condition is not likely to change significantly will not have to go through repetitive assessments just to prove they need welfare payments
Unpaid carers were told they would see their entitlement to leave extended to one week
Free TV licences
There are also question marks over what the Prime Minister plans to do about the funding of the BBC. Pensioners’ free TV licences used to be guaranteed until they were controversially scrapped last year.
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Hide AdThe Prime Minister is yet to weigh in on the dispute, but during the election said that he thought the way the BBC was funded needed to be re-examined, and had called into question whether TV licenses still made sense.