Universal Credit
(asked on 7th March 2019) - 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 claimants who will move to universal credit from legacy benefits (a) in total and (b) through managed migration.
This question was answered on 26th March 2019
We estimate that 4.6 million households will move to Universal Credit from legacy benefits in total. Of this, we estimate that 2 million households will be moved to Universal Credit from legacy benefits without a change in circumstance.
We anticipate that the Universal Credit caseload will increase in size from around 1.3 million households today to around 6.5 million households by the end of 2023.