Universal Credit

(asked on 15th June 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 universal credit claims are calculated automatically.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 20th June 2018

The following figures show over the previous 12 months, the number of Universal Credit Full Service payments which have been created automatically as a percentage of the total number of Universal Credit Full Service payments created. These are Universal Credit Full Service claims that were live at the end of the given month defined by the Universal Credit Official statistics caseload data.

Payment month

Total payments calculated automatically

Total payments created

Percentage of payments calculated automatically

May-17

71,610

91,700

78%

Jun-17

81,430

101,550

80%

Jul-17

92,250

114,430

81%

Aug-17

106,200

127,540

83%

Sep-17

120,080

143,910

83%

Oct-17

136,030

162,260

84%

Nov-17

155,670

181,010

86%

Dec-17

182,140

208,680

87%

Jan-18

209,830

236,920

89%

Feb-18

255,160

285,380

89%

Mar-18

303,770

333,490

91%

Apr-18

334,190

377,580

89%

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