Universal Credit: Coronavirus

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of new applicants for universal credit who are self-assessment taxpayers, since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 15th January 2021

Around 913,000 people made a claim to Universal Credit, between 16 March 2020 and 12 November 2020, that have been required to report self-employed earnings at some point during their claim.

Notes:

- Figure rounded to the nearest thousand.

- This figure does not include people who made a UC claim but did not subsequently make it onto the official UC caseload.

- Not everybody would have been required to report self-employed earnings from the outset of their claim.

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