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UNIVERSAL CREDIT (UC) claimants were waiting up to 11 weeks for full payment even before demand rocketed during the coronavirus crisis, a report revealed today.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had “significantly” improved the proportion of claims paid on time, from a woeful 55 per cent in January 2017 to 90 per cent in February 2020, according to the National Audit Office (NOA).
But as the number of people claiming UC has grown, the number of people paid late has also increased — from 113,000 in 2017 to 312,000 in 2019.
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