The Universal Credit page on Gov.uk went down this morning and left hundreds unable to log in to the website.
According to Downdetector, both Gov.uk and HMRC saw a spike in reported outages at around 5am this morning.
People reported issues logging in and using the website as well as the app.
Problems were also reported yesterday evening at around 9pm for people trying to access HMRC.
Other problems with the Gov.uk website were also reported around the same time.
HMRC and DWP has been contacted for comment.
Some people shared the news that they could not access the Universal Credit page.
This included Kerry Blakeley who posted: ‘Can’t login to UC not working.’
Another person posted on X: ‘Hi @GOVUK, what is wrong with your Universal Credit website? This is the message I received when I tried to log into my account.’
They included a screenshot of the website that says: ‘Sorry, the service is unavailable.’
Harry Anglesmith added: ‘Mines doing same, I thought I’d been booted out because of fraud (Google says) lol.’
There has been a number of reported outages over the last few weeks, including Microsoft Outlook which went down on Saturday.
Millions of people across the world were unable to access Microsoft services including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Store.
Last week, thousands of people were unable to access their Slack accounts and couldn’t do any work.
Many used the outage as an excuse to stop work, kick back and relax.
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