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universal credit

universal credit is the alternative form of Universal Credit.

Proper noun capitalized: Universal Credit

Universal Credit

  1. (UK) A welfare benefit replacing previous benefits and tax credits, gradually rolled out from 2013 and expected to cover the United Kingdom by the end of 2024.
    • So now Mahmood was in debt and his existing benefits were stopped because the DWP computer thought he was receiving universal credit.2019 October 14, Robert Booth, “Computer says no: the people trapped in universal credit's 'black hole'”, in The Guardian

Forms of universal credit

alternative formuniversal credit

Questions about universal credit

What does universal credit mean?
Universal credit means a welfare benefit replacing previous benefits and tax credits, gradually rolled out from 2013 and expected to cover the United Kingdom by the end of 2024.
What is universal credit the alternative form of?
Universal credit is the alternative form of Universal Credit.
What part of speech is universal credit?
Universal credit is a proper noun.

Words near universal credit in the dictionary

  1. universal basic income
  2. universal cabinet key
  3. universal chuck
  4. universal chucks
  5. Universal Core Syllable Condition
  6. universal credit
  7. universal design
  8. universal design for instruction
  9. universal donor
  10. universal donors
  11. Universal Friends

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