Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit payments are subject to deductions for tax credit debt.
From 3rd April 2020, deductions for benefit overpayments were temporarily suspended for three months. These began to be reinstated from the beginning of July, taking a phased approach.
Most recent figures show, for Universal Credit claims due a payment during August 2020, 2% (102,000 claims) had a deduction for Tax Credit Overpayments.