IRRV Alert - week ending 22nd May 2020

News

Circulars

Universal Credit declarations (claims) and advances: management information (19 May 2020)

 

 

 

 

 

Research and analysis

Universal Credit declarations (claims) and advances: management information

Management information providing daily counts of Universal Credit declarations (claims) and advances from 1 March to 5 May 2020.

Published 5 May 2020
Last updated 19 May 2020 — see all updates

From:

Department for Work and Pensions

Documents

Universal Credit management information tables: 1 March to 12 May 2020

ODS, 38.7KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format.

Note about the methodology used and application of the Code of Practice for Statistics

HTML

Details

These management information (MI) tables are drawn from data extracts from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) administrative systems used to manage and process claims for Universal Credit.

The management information is a view of what is recorded on the administrative data and have not been quality assured and processed to the standards required to be official statistics.

Moreover, they will not have been derived to the same methodology as official statistics, and therefore the MI and official statistics will not be directly comparable.

See the ‘guidance tab’ in the accompanying data tables for more information about this,

Universal Credit declarations

Since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there has been unprecedented levels of demand for Universal Credit.

From 1 March to 12 May 2020, DWP has received 2.8 million individual declarations to Universal Credit.

Since 16 March 2020, when the lockdown came into effect, DWP has seen 2.6 million individual declarations.

Whilst there is still an increase in volumes compared to normal business, these are now beginning to fall.

Advance payments

The volume of advance payments has seen a large increase which coincides with the increased number of Universal Credit declarations.

From 1 March to 12 May 2020, 1,064,000 advance payments were issued. The majority of these, around 878,000, are new claim and benefit transfer advances which are available to those new to Universal Credit although an increase has also been seen in the budgeting and change of circumstances advances available to those already claiming Universal Credit.

Since the lockdown, from 16 March 2020, DWP has paid around 970,000 advance payments with around 817,000 of these for new claim and benefit transfer advances.

Previous release

The first release of this management information (with data from 1 March 2020 to 12 April 2020) was published alongside the Universal Credit official statistics release, on 21 April 2020.

Further information

You can find further statistics related to the economic and social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) release Coronavirus, the UK economy and society, faster indicators statistical bulletins.

The ONS bulletin is updated every Thursday with new data and experimental indicators, based on rapid response surveys, novel data sources and experimental methods.

The faster indicators includes new regular outputs, such as the latest responses from the business impact of COVID–19 survey, online prices of high-demand products, initial results from the weekly Opinions & Lifestyle Survey, and daily and weekly shipping data.

Published 5 May 2020
Last updated 19 May 2020 + show all updates


IRRV Software

Copyright © 2025 · All Rights Reserved · Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation
Warning: Undefined array key "User_id" in /home/irrvnet/public_html/forumalert/inc_footer.php on line 4