Universal Credit

(asked on 13th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people making an application for universal credit in (a) April 2018 and (b) October 2018 waited more than (i) six weeks, (ii) seven weeks, (iii) eight weeks, (iv) nine weeks and (v) ten weeks before receiving their first payment.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 18th February 2019

The next regular official statistics will be published on 19 February 2019. This will provide the latest data on payment timeliness for new Universal Credit claims. Future official statistics will include additional breakdowns of payment timeliness.

Longer term we will publish further Universal Credit statistical releases and continue to commission and publish ad-hoc statistical releases.

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