Universal Credit: Self-employed
(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many self-employed claimants who claimed universal credit for the first time between 30 March 2020 and 31 July 2021 were subsequently found to be gainfully self-employed; and of these how many were granted the start-up period.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 25th April 2022
As of March 2022, 115,000 individuals who started on Universal Credit for the first time between 30th March 2020 and 31st July 2021 have been assessed as gainfully self-employed, of which 107,000 were placed in a start-up period.