Universal Credit

(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will release data to (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations on the claimants due to migrate from legacy benefits to universal credit on a daily basis.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 30th October 2017

Migrations from existing benefits to Universal Credit currently occur following a relevant change of circumstance that would previously have prompted a new claim to another existing benefit. It is not possible to predict when such a change may occur so the data referred to is not available.

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