Universal Credit: North West
(asked on 18th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for payment of an award of universal credit is in (a) the North West and (b) Warrington.
This question was answered on 26th October 2017
There is no data broken down by area or region. However, data published on 15 September 2017 shows that, nationally, 81% of new full service claims received their first payment in full and on time. Across the whole of Universal Credit 92% of all households received full payment on time. The published data can be found here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-payment-timeliness-january-to-june-2017