Universal Credit: Self-employed
(asked on 20th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claimants were categorised as self-employed in the latest period for which that data is available.
This question was answered on 23rd October 2020
In August 2020, the number of self-employed people claiming Universal Credit and required to report self-employed income, stood at 746,000.
This represented 13.4% of all people claiming Universal Credit.
Notes:
Volumes are rounded to the nearest thousand