Universal Credit

(asked on 20th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to collect information on the number of people (a) failing and (b) ceasing to claim universal credit as a result of the complexity of the process.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 25th June 2018

We do not plan to collect this information.

However, the latest Universal Credit Full Service Claimant Survey published on 8 June 2018, found that the majority of claimants found the claim process either very or fairly easy.

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