Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 1 October 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the £20 uplift to universal credit in response to covid-19 outbreak.
The cost will be dependent on the volumes anticipated to claim Universal Credit during the period to March 21. The Office for Budget Responsibility will be publishing its assessment of this in due course as part of its Autumn forecast.
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