universal credit

proper noun

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.

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Meanings

universal credit1

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Universal Credit.

Universal Credit2

proper noun

alternative universal credit

  1. UKeconomicsA 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

Translations

Scottish Gaelic Creideas Coitcheann
  • Creideas Coitcheannwelfare benefit
Cite this entry
APA

universal credit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/universal%20credit

MLA

“universal credit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/universal%20credit. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “universal credit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/universal%20credit.

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