Universal Credit Scottish Choices – management information to March 2026

This report presents management information on Universal Credit (UC) recipients in Scotland who took up or requested UC Scottish choices by March 2026.

UC Scottish choices give recipients of UC in Scotland a choice to have their UC award paid either monthly or twice monthly (More Frequent Payments, MFP), and have the housing costs in their award of UC paid direct to their landlord (DPL). A person can make one or both choices, depending on their circumstances, and choices made can be reversed at any time.

Clients are given a choice when they first take up UC, but existing clients can also request an offer at any time.

The UC Scottish choices were introduced on 4 October 2017 for people making a new UC claim where available, and by 2019, this covered all of Scotland. This publication covers the period from April 2021 to March 2026.

This report presents figures on offers of UC Scottish choices by choice type and local authority.

This information supersedes the information previously published in February 2021. The DWP have since overhauled the system used to produce the data on which this release is based, and these figures are now the most up-to-date information available.