COVID-19 Crisis and Universal Credit in Glasgow
Published: 9 September 2021
Commentary, Research insight
Trends in Universal Credit caseload over the pandemic and the implications of these trends on policy and practice.
Fourth and final working paper in the series on Universal Credit in Glasgow and Scotland from Dr Sarah Weakley, at Policy Scotland and her co-author on this paper, Laura Comincini.
It uses publicly available Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data to investigate the income crisis among low-income people who access Universal Credit (UC) in Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on data at the Glasgow City local authority level.
The data covers the period from the onset of the COVID-19 crisis (March 2020) to July 2021, or shorter when more recent data was not available.
Having up to 17 months of data allows the authors to investigate what trends have emerged and persist in UC caseload; the paper reports on these trends and considers the implications of these trends on policy and practice.
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First published: 9 September 2021