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Universal Credit: Telephone Services

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 13800, tabled on 8 February 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls were received by the universal credit helpline in each month of the last two years.

Answered on

23 February 2024

The tables below show the volume of calls received (Calls Offered to Agent Queue) by Universal Credit each month.

Month Year

Calls Offered to Agent Queue

Jan-2022

1,403,295

Feb-2022

1,567,168

Mar-2022

1,633,545

Month Year

Calls Offered to Agent Queue

Apr-2022

1,499,101

May-2022

1,528,005

Jun-2022

1,491,626

Jul-2022

1,334,005

Aug-2022

1,359,542

Sep-2022

1,392,858

Oct-2022

1,318,787

Nov-2022

1,280,920

Dec-2022

1,150,052

Jan-2023

1,297,883

Feb-2023

1,164,493

Mar-2023

1,345,024

Month Year

Calls Offered to Agent Queue

Apr-2023

1,213,815

May-2023

1,223,812

Jun-2023

1,215,854

Jul-2023

1,150,900

Aug-2023

1,213,767

Sep-2023

1,263,332

Oct-2023

1,323,566

Nov-2023

1,307,174

Dec-2023

1,148,327

Jan-2024

1,413,983

DISCLAIMER

Please note this information is derived from the Department’s management information, designed solely for the purpose of helping the Department to manage its business. As such, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. As DWP holds the information internally, we have released it. However, it is possible information held by DWP may change due to operational reasons and we recommend that caution be applied when using it.

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