Universal Credit

(asked on 11th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applicants have applied for payments to be paid to (a) the household and (b) split between adults in the same household to date.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 16th January 2018

We do not record statistics on the number of applications for split payments.

However, in June 2017, 370,000 households were receiving a payment for Universal Credit.

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