Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of new applicants for universal credit who are self-assessment taxpayers, since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak.
Around 913,000 people made a claim to Universal Credit, between 16 March 2020 and 12 November 2020, that have been required to report self-employed earnings at some point during their claim.
Notes:
- Figure rounded to the nearest thousand.
- This figure does not include people who made a UC claim but did not subsequently make it onto the official UC caseload.
- Not everybody would have been required to report self-employed earnings from the outset of their claim.