Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of households with children aged between eight and eighteen years old that are in receipt of Universal Credit and are earning at or above £40k per year.
The latest available data, for December 2022, show there are approximately 8,500 households on UC that have total net earnings of £3,333 per assessment period which equates to annual net earnings at or above £40,000 and have children aged between eight and eighteen years old.