Petition Universal Credit! Abolish the waiting time to receive money

The new Universal Credit replaces JSA, Income Support, ESA, Housing Benefit, Tax Credits and Working Tax Credits.

More details

The rollout of Universal Credit has left many people in poverty.
Once a person has claimed UC, all their benefits stop until the UC claim has been processed.
This takes around 5 weeks to process.
We believe the Government should abolish the waiting time for a claimant to receive their money.
Families face a choice of heating or eating.
In 21st century Britain this is wrong.
Abolish the 5 week waiting period now!

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

132 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Date closed 5 May 2019
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.