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<p /> <p /> <p>After full roll-out, the Department's latest analysis suggests that
Universal Credit will reduce the number of individuals in relative income poverty
by some 600,000; including up to 300,000 children and up to 350,000 adults (numbers
do not sum due to rounding).</p><p> </p><p>This figure does not take into account
the expected increase in numbers of people in work as a result of universal credit,
and excludes the impact of the minimum income floor for the self-employed which is
designed to encourage those affected to improve their income levels and for which
the behavioural response is very difficult to model.</p><p> </p><p>This estimate is
not affected by the timetable for the implementation of Universal Credit, and changes
to the policy on uprating of work allowances make negligible difference to the impact
of Universal Credit on child or adult poverty as measured by relative income.</p><p>
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