Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse

(asked on 27th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many separate bank accounts have been established in the last 12 months for benefit claimants suffering from domestic violence.


Answered by
Baroness Buscombe Portrait
Baroness Buscombe
This question was answered on 12th April 2018

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. DWP statisticians are currently working to develop official statistics on Alternative Payment Arrangements for Universal Credit (UC) which will include information on split payments.

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