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<p>Short Term Benefit Advances (STBA) are only available against legacy benefits.
Universal Credit has its own system of benefit advances. The equivalent support to
STBA is provided by either the Universal Credit (new claim) advance or the Universal
Credit (change of circumstance) advance.</p><p> </p><p>The information you have requested
is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official
statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013 which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p><p>
</p><p>These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant
protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p>As outlined in the
strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for Universal Credit, therefore
it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided
in the future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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