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Oops! - not so many UC claimants after all…
Turns out the government accidentally counted non-claimants (children and non-dependents) when counting the number of UC claims so there aren’t actually as many as they thought. Next lot of statistics on 19 October will show the correct figures which are expected to be lower…
“accidentally”?
Next: family pets, people who used to live at the address, callers at the door, passers-by, holiday-makers in UC areas….anything to boost the numbers!
This revision has no impact on the number of people who go on to start receiving UC or the number of people currently in receipt of UC
So ... that was already accurate, or that will be allowed to remain inaccurate?
Next: family pets, people who used to live at the address, callers at the door, passers-by, holiday-makers in UC areas….anything to boost the numbers!
I think they call that pulling a concentrix
Nah, that would have to include dead people
Nah, that would have to include dead people
and shops/post offices…
This might help to explain the vast gap between number of claims submitted and number of claimants?
Universal chaos.
You’re right Paul - that’s something we asked them about a number of times at operational stakeholders and they never had a satisfactory answer - well now we know - they were fudging it!
Nah, that would have to include dead people
and shops/post offices…
I thought that HMRC/Concentrix already did that in regard to LTAHAW decisions!
Yep the gap between number of claims and number of claimants was glaring, and unexplained!
“they were fudging it!”
Very polite.
I can think of some other phrases more appropriate…...