Number of people on Universal Credit falls in some Greater Manchester boroughs for first time since pandemic began

The number of people claiming Universal Credit has begun to fall in some Greater Manchester boroughs for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

Before this month, the number of claimants of the all-in-one benefit had been increasing across the city-region consistently since March 2020.

While in most boroughs the number is still going up, the rate of increase has slowed massively.