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<p>A budgeting advance is available for one-off unexpected financial events for Universal
Credit claimants and is repayable over a period of up to 12 monthly instalments. Claimants
might be able to get help for things such as: emergency household costs, getting a
job or staying in work or funeral costs.</p><p /><p>Between June 2015 and May 2019,
404,000 Universal Credit claims have received a budgeting advance.</p><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>
</p><ol><li>Figures relate to Universal Credit full service only</li><li>Figures relate
to total number of budgeting advances since their introduction</li><li>Figures are
rounded to the nearest 1,000</li><li>Where a claim has received multiple budgeting
advances they have only been counted once</li></ol>
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