Claims for Universal Credit have doubled since March 2020
Posted by CaridonLandlordSolutions
A year on since the start of the pandemic, and the scale of hardship caused by Covid-19 is really starting to show as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed the number of people claiming Universal Credit has doubled since start of the pandemic. The data shows that more than a third of claims (39%) since Universal Credit started in 2013 have been made during the pandemic.