Thousands of disabled people ‘will get £2,800 a year less under universal credit’

More than 7 million people in the UK will have moved over to universal credit when the rollout is completed, the thinktank said. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The rollout of universal credit is on course to make thousands of working-age disabled people significantly poorer, according to a report showing that more than 7 million people will be covered by the six-into-one benefit change before the end of the next parliament.

A single person with a long-term disability that prevents them from working is £2,800 a year worse off when they transfer to universal credit (UC), the Resolution Foundation said, adding that all single people with long-term disabilities will suffer this loss of income when the rollout of UC is completed by 2030.