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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Zoe Tidman

Four million children now live in households on universal credit

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The number of children in low-income families receiving universal credit has risen to four million, analysis of new official data shows.

That figure is half a million more than the same time last year, according to the statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

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