This is absolutely astonishing -
Around 950,000 people have applied for Universal Credit since govt introduced 'stay at home', policy on 16th March - it would normally be about 100,000 over a fortnight

Worth remembering people on Universal Credit have lots of different circumstances, not everyone is out of work, DWP says they have moved 10k staff to help deal with the demand

But this is, no question, a sign of real economic stress for many, many thousands of people as a result of the virus