Million universal credit households ‘do not get full entitlement’
Deductions to cover loans are forcing many to turn to food banks
More than a million households on universal credit – 60% of everyone receiving the payments –are having their benefits cut to repay debts and loans.
Data sourced under the Freedom of Information Act show that in May – the most recent month for which figures are available – 1,048,000 universal credit claimants had a deduction of their benefit payment out of 1,759,000 claimants who received any universal credit payment that month.