Universal Credit
(asked on 19th January 2018) - 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 claimants for universal credit (a) requested and (b) received a benefit transfer advance in each month from 5 June 2017 up to and including 31 December 2017.
The information requested for numbers of requested Universal Credit advances is not available. However, data on advances paid in the Universal Credit Full Service is included below.
| New Claim advances | Benefit Transfer advances | Change of Circumstance advances | |||
| Claims paid an advance | As a proportion of new claims | Claims paid an advance | As a proportion of all claims | Claims paid an advance | As a proportion of all claims |
17-Jun | 6,800 | 43% | 400 |
| 600 |
|
17-Jul | 7,600 | 43% | 500 |
| 700 | 1% |
17-Aug | 9,100 | 42% | 1,100 | 1% | 900 | 1% |
17-Sep | 8,400 | 35% | 2,000 | 1% | 1,000 | 1% |
17-Oct | 12,400 | 47% | 2,400 | 1% | 1,300 | 1% |
17-Nov | 19,600 | 58% | 3,400 | 2% | 1,600 | 1% |