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<p>Between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023, 880,000 Universal Credit (UC) households
received at least one advance payment of UC and between 1 April 2023 and 30 November
2023, 610,000 UC households received at least one advance payment of UC.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10,000.</p><p>2. Figures are provisional
and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>3.
Data up to November 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household
Statistics.</p><p>4. This analysis includes New Claims, Change of Circumstances and
Benefit Transfers as these are an advance of a Universal Credit payment. Budgeting
Advances have been excluded since these are loans to help with emergency household
costs and not an advance of Universal Credit payment.</p><p>5. Households with more
than one advance payment in the stated time period have only been counted once.</p>
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