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Users are advised that postcode areas for claims made to Universal Credit between 13 March 2020 and 9 April 2020 and starts on Universal Credit for April 2020 have been revised. This does not affect People on Universal Credit and Households on Universal Credit.

These are 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 would welcome and encourage feedback on what changes are welcomed and what further improvements could be made.

Non-media enquiries: 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 July 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 July 2020
who are on Universal Credit at 9 July 2020

They also contain data for the total number of households on Universal Credit at 14 May 2020.

All data is available on Stat-Xplore.

Feedback – external user engagement survey

How do you use Universal Credit statistics? Do these statistics meet your needs?

Please tell us about your experiences as a user of the Universal Credit official statistics in our User Engagement Survey. We will use the information collected in the survey to assess our current statistical outputs against user needs and to identify areas for improvement.

It will take around 10 to 12 minutes to complete this brief survey.

The survey closes on 27 August 2020.

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 11 June 2020)

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 9 April 2020)

Interactive statistics

View statistics on the Universal Credit claimants at Jobcentre Plus office level in an interactive map.

View an interactive map which shows statistics on households on Universal Credit at Local Authority level.

View an interactive dashboard of the latest Universal Credit household statistics by region.

Find further breakdowns of these statistics in Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of DWP’s main statistics.

Pre-release access

In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24 hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24 hour pre-release access to the latest Universal Credit statistics.

More information

Read the background information and methodology note for more information about the Universal Credit statistics.

People on Universal Credit statistics are released monthly.
Next release: 15 September 2020

Households on Universal Credit statistics, and claims and starts for Universal Credit are released quarterly.
Next quarterly release: 10 November 2020

Published 11 August 2020

IRRV Alert - week ending 14th August 2020

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