Universal Credit

(asked on 19th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many claimants currently receiving Universal Credit are (1) self-employed, (2) employed, and (3) unemployed.


Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie Portrait
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 4th May 2023

The total number of self-employed Universal Credit claimants in January 2023 was 493,300. This has been rounded to the nearest 100.

The latest statistics published monthly on Stat-Xplore show that, from the 5.8 million people on Universal Credit in February 2023, 2.2 million were in employment and 3.6 million were not in employment.

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