Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full service universal credit claimants have had their claims stopped each month due to a zero award.
Below are the number/proportion of Universal Credit Full Service claims by the month of closure:
Closure Month | Number of claims closed due to zero award | As percentage of monthly caseload |
September 2018 | 9,300 | 1.0% |
October 2018 | 11,800 | 1.1% |
Notes:
Claim closed count rounded to the nearest 100 and the percentages to nearest 0.1%
Where the claimant had not confirmed their address prior to the case being closed, it has not been possible to exclude a small number of UC cases from Northern Ireland.