Universal Credit: 29 April 2013 to 9 January 2020

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Official experimental statistics including the number of people and households on Universal Credit, starts and claims. Published 18 February 2020 From: Department for Work and Pensions Applies to: England,...Request free trial

Official experimental statistics including the number of people and households on Universal Credit, starts and claims.

Published 18 February 2020

From:: Department for Work and Pensions

Applies to:: England, Scotland, and Wales

Documents

Universal Credit: 29 April 2013 to 9 January 2020

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Data tables: Universal Credit, experimental official statistics to 9 January 2019

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Details

Official statistics (experimental) on Universal Credit for England, Scotland and Wales released according to arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Summary tables for Universal Credit statistics are available on Stat-Xplore.

The bulletin and background information and methodology document have been reviewed and updated. The Universal Credit statistics production team encourage feedback on what changes are welcomed and what further improvements could be made. Email your feedback to: team.ucos@dwp.gov.uk.

These experimental statistics contain data for the total number of people:

who have submitted a claim for Universal Credit with a personal declaration to 9 January 2020
who have made a claim and have attended an initial interview, accepted their claimant commitment, and gone on to start Universal Credit up to 9 January 2020
who are on Universal Credit at 9 January 2020

They also contain data for the total number of households on Universal Credit at 14 November 2019.

All data is available on Stat-Xplore.

People on Universal Credit statistics has count data by:

Jobcentre Plus office
country, region, local authority and census area output
Westminster parliamentary constituency
postcode (district)
age
conditionality regime
duration
gender
employment status (to 12 December 2019)

Claims on Universal Credit statistics has count data by postcode (area).

Starts on Universal Credit statistics has count data by:

Jobcentre Plus office
postcode (area)
age
gender

Households on Universal Credit statistics has counts and average (mean) payment by:

Jobcentre Plus office
country, region, local authority and census area output
Westminster parliamentary constituency
postcode (district)
additional elements (carer, child, childcare, disabled child, housing (by tenure), limited capability to work
alternative payment arrangements (managed payment to landlord, more frequent payment, split payment)
Scottish choices (direct payment to landlord, more frequent payment)
family type
monthly award (bands)
payment indicator
payment timeliness (to 10 October 2019)

Interactive statistics

Alternative ways to view Universal Credit statistics are available:

summary tables and custom made tables and charts available from Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of DWP’s main statistics
Universal Credit claimants at Jobcentre Plus office level on an interactive map
households on Universal Credit at Local Authority level on an interactive map
Universal Credit household statistics by region on an interactive dashboard

Next releases

People on Universal Credit statistics are released monthly.

Next monthly release: 17 March 2020

Households on Universal Credit statistics, and claims and starts for Universal Credit are released quarterly.

Next quarterly release: 19 May 2020

Guidance

An updated background information and methodology guidance document has been published with this release, providing more information about Universal Credit statistics.