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.
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% |