Database: Households on Universal Credit

Field: Payment Timeliness (All Claims)

Description

The Payment Timeliness indicator shows the proportion of households that have an assessment period that spans the count date (the second Thursday of the month) and received either full or partial payment on time. The 'caseload month' is the month in which the count date falls (e.g. for the count date 9 May 2019 the caseload month is May 2019).

Households will have the indicator shown as 'Not available / not applicable' in the following circumstances:

• The caseload month is before April 2019
• The claim is not in payment
• The claim is in payment but the payment was paid in its entirety to their landlord (if they have a Managed Payment to Landlord / Scottish Choices Direct Payment to Landlord in place)
• The claim is in payment but the household has received the payment separately of their usual monthly award (e.g. as an advance payment)

Classification

Applicable to: All Households

The Payment Timeliness for all claims indicator field can take the following values:

• Not available / not applicable
• Full payment on time
• Some payment on time (not including full payment on time)
• No payment on time

Total number of categories: 4

Quality Statement

In a small percentage of cases, an assessment period for a household can sometimes fall between two caseload dates. In this circumstance, payment timeliness information for that assessment period will not be included in these statistics for that household in that particular month. Usually, when this happens the previous or following assessment period will span two count dates, and hence the payment timeliness information from that assessment period will be used for two consecutive caseload months.

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