Universal Credit

(asked on 19th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of universal credit have been successful in an application for a budgeting advance.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 28th June 2019

A budgeting advance is available for one-off unexpected financial events for Universal Credit claimants and is repayable over a period of up to 12 monthly instalments. Claimants might be able to get help for things such as: emergency household costs, getting a job or staying in work or funeral costs.

Between June 2015 and May 2019, 404,000 Universal Credit claims have received a budgeting advance.

Notes

  1. Figures relate to Universal Credit full service only
  2. Figures relate to total number of budgeting advances since their introduction
  3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000
  4. Where a claim has received multiple budgeting advances they have only been counted once
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