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Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
Official experimental statistics on the number of children living in low income families.
Number of households capped from 15 April 2013 to August 2014.
Qualitative research to understand customer needs when transferring tax credits overpayment debt to Universal Credit
This report provides the main findings from the evaluation of the Universal Credit Pathfinder.
Statistics to December 2013 on take-up of the In Work Credit, a financial incentive available to lone parents moving into work.
Research into why some households who are eligible for tax credits do not make a claim.
Quarterly statistics on the progress of the Child Support Agency (CSA) child support schemes to June 2018.
Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - work trials, programmes and clubs, New Enterprise Allowance, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
Provides experimental statistics on households that have their Housing Benefit or Universal Credit claim capped through the Benefit Cap in Northern Ireland.
Child Benefit claims can be made online for the first time.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Information for all local authority staff about Universal Credit.
Estimate the Child Benefit you've received and your High Income Child Benefit tax charge
DWP Freedom of Information (FOI) releases published in July 2013.
Quarterly statistics on the progress of the Child Support Agency (CSA) child support schemes to September 2018.
This document explains the methodology for the benefit sanction duration statistics and sanction rate.
This consultation seeks evidence on the impact of reducing the period that benefit is paid to claimants temporarily outside of GB.
A lone parent breakdown of the Office for National Statistics Jobseeker's Allowance claimant count statistics. This is in response to the changes to the eligibility rules for Income Support introduced in November 2008.
A disability premium is extra money if you’re under Pension Credit age and registered blind or getting certain benefits - what you get, eligibility, apply
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