Universal Credit

(asked on 7th February 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 13th February 2019

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.

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