Universal Credit: Coronavirus
(asked on 6th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of (1) the number, and (2) the proportion, of new Universal Credit claimants since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic who are covered by the nine month grace period.
This question was answered on 22nd May 2020
Information relating to Universal Credit claimants who will be exempt from the benefit cap for the nine-month grace period is not readily available, to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.