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<p>As of November 2023,100 Tax Credit claims, in Merseyside, and less than 5 Tax Credit
claims, in the Wirral that have migrated to Universal Credit (UC) have had a deduction
for a non-fraud Tax Credit debt from their UC award.</p><p> </p><p>UC claims in Northern
Ireland are administered by the Department for Communities.</p><p> </p><p>Proportions
of the Tax Credit caseload cannot be provided as Tax Credit claims are administered
by HMRC. HMRC publish statistics on the number of families benefiting from Child Tax
Credit (CTC) and/or Working Tax Credit (WTC) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland. Latest publication can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-provisional-awards-april-2023/commentary-child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-provisional-awards-april-2023"
target="_blank">Commentary - Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: Provisional
awards - April 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1.
Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>2. The figures are of distinct
Universal Credit households that have migrated from Child Tax Credits and/or Working
Tax Credits that also had a deduction taken from their UC entitlement to repay a non-fraud
Tax Credit debt. Any household with deductions in more than one assessment period
will only be counted once.</p><p>3. "Merseyside" has been interpreted as
the sum of the Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St. Helens & Wirral local authority
areas.</p><p>4. Data has been provided for deductions taken up to November 2023, in
line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</p><p>5. Figures are provisional
and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p>
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