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<p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit
ensures that people are better off in work – and makes it pay for people to increase
their earnings through more or better paid work. We will, for the first time, be supporting
people in low-paid work to take active steps to increase their earnings.</p><p> </p><p>Universal
Credit substantially improves the incentives to work. Up to 300,000 more people are
likely to be in work as a result of Universal Credit, through improved financial incentives,
increased simplicity of the system and increased conditionality.</p><p> </p><p>The
number of workless households has fallen by nearly 700,000 since 2010, to its lowest
level on record and the number of people in in-work poverty fell 300,000 on the year,
2012/13 compared to 2011/12.</p><p> </p>
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