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Written question asked by Stephen Morgan (Labour) on Monday, 18 May 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 20 May 2020. It was answered by Will Quince (Conservative) on Friday, 29 May 2020 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Universal Credit: Coronavirus

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of trends in the number of universal credit applications during the covid-19 outbreak on the ability of her Department to process applications in a timely manner.

Answer

In response to unprecedented numbers of new claims, the Department has taken steps to ensure that people get the support they need quickly. The latest payment time statistics show over 90% of new eligible claimants are paid in full and on time. Data on payment timeliness up to April 2020 will be available on Stat-Xplore from 11th August

The latest available information on Universal Credit payment timeliness is published and can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html

Notes:

Payment timeliness is published with a further month between the publication date and the latest period being published for other UC household official statistics. This is because the data is subject to a lot of retrospection. Publishing data earlier would lead to relatively large revisions and to a loss of confidence in the earlier figures. This is the earliest payment timeliness can be published when balancing the needs of quality and timeliness of the statistics.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
48589
Session
2019-21
Related items
List of Ministerial Responsibilities
Monday, 15 June 2020
Written questions
House of Commons
List of Ministerial Responsibilities
Monday, 15 June 2020
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Universal credit Coronavirus
Link
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