Almost 500,000 people in UK apply for universal credit in nine days

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Almost 500,000 people in UK apply for universal credit in nine days
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DWP redeploys staff to deal with ‘unprecedented’ numbers of people seeking benefit amid coronavirus crisis

Hundreds of thousands of people have applied for universal credit following the UK outbreak of Covid-19.

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