Universal Credit: Coronavirus

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

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 since the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak who are self-assessment taxpayers and have been (a) refused benefit or (b) had their benefit reduced as a result of having savings set aside to meet their tax bill for tax year 2019- 20 .


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 15th January 2021

The information requested is not available as we do not record reasons as to what purpose an individual’s savings are used for.

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