Universal Credit
(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people unable to claim universal credit as a result of having savings of over £16,000.
This question was answered on 4th June 2020
In 2019, 8,670 claims were not eligible to Universal Credit due to having savings of over £16,000.
Time of Claim | % of claims ineligible due to capital | Number of claims ineligible due to capital | Number of Claims (declarations) |
2019 claims | 0.20% | 8,670 | 3,472,000 |