Universal Credit

English

Alternative forms

• universal credit

Proper noun

Universal Credit

1. (taxation) A welfare benefit in the United Kingdom, replacing previous benefits and tax credits, gradually rolled out from 2013 and expected to cover the whole country by the end of 2024.
   • 2019 October 14, Robert Booth, “Computer says no: the people trapped in universal credit's 'black hole'”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     So now Mahmood was in debt and his existing benefits were stopped because the DWP computer thought he was receiving universal credit.

Translations

welfare benefit

• Scottish Gaelic: Creideas Coitcheann m