Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the migration of data from the national insurance system to the universal credit system has completed.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) do not provide information to the Universal Credit system. The administration of National Insurance Credits is a HMRC function, but every tax year the Department for Work and Pensions sends data on Universal Credit claim dates to HMRC to enable them to apply credits to claimant records.

DWP has corrected the Universal Credit data issues for all the cases impacted for the tax years 2017/18 and 2018/19. This data is now being shared with HMRC. Data has also been shared with HMRC for 2019/20, 20/21 and 21/22.

DWP expect National Insurance records will be fully updated by HMRC, by April 2024.