UniversalCredit claimants have reached a record eight million, according to official figures published on Tuesday ... Universal Credit is a payment designed to assist with living costs, ...
The latest figure of eight million for July 2025 is the highest level it has been since the benefit was introduced in 2013, according to official figures published last week ... .
the number of people who made a claim or started on UniversalCredit to July 2025 ... These showed households on Universal Credit at the local authority level and people on Universal Credit at Jobcentre Plus level.
UniversalCredit is a payment to help ...DWP admitted £6.35billion was overpaid in Universal Credit in 2024-25, which was almost 10 per cent of the £65.3billion of total expenditure on Universal Credit.
Moody's Investors Service upgraded Prime's corporate credit rating to B2 ... company's corporate credit rating to B2. S&P GlobalRatings affirmed the credit rating and raised the outlook to positive.
The DWP is to make changes to ten benefits payments within days - following the bank holiday adjustment, parents with children continuing their education have been warned to update HMRC by this date ... .