Government expenditure on Universal Credit in the UK 2019-2025

Published by D. Clark, May 30, 2025

The government of the United Kingdom is expected to spend approximately **** billion British pounds on Universal Credit in 2024/25, compared with just under ** billion pounds in the previous financial year. 

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Government expenditure on Universal Credit in the United Kingdom from 2019/20 to 2024/25 (in million GBP)

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Release date

April 2025

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2020 to 2025

Supplementary notes

This statistic is using original data from the Department for Work and Pensions and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

Data for 2024/25 onwards is forecast data.

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