Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 November 2017.
We have to be careful not to scaremonger on this issue. A National Federation of Arm’s Length Management Organisations report says that three quarters of tenants who started to claim universal credit were already in arrears, and research shows that after four months the number of claimants in arrears has fallen by a third.