Universal Credit: Disqualification

(asked on 23rd June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have claimed universal credit received a benefit sanction in 2016-17.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 28th June 2017

The latest available information on Universal Credit sanction decisions is up to December 2016 and is published at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html

These statistics cover Universal Credit live service only, more information on these can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-sanctions-statistics-background-information-and-methodology

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