https://x.com/NeilCouling/status/1965768015938748780?s=19 Big day for #UniversalCredit. The final migration notices were issued to ESA claimants today – all now have had the call to claim UC. Important all do that before the provisions of the Universal Credit Act 2025 come into effect in April.
Tag: ESA
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether existing claimants of Employment Support Allowance, who leave the social security system and later need to return to claim (a) Employment Support Allowance and (b) Universal Health, will be considered new claimants.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-08-29/71743 Answered on5 September 2025 Customers who leave the social security system and later need to return to claim New Style Employment Support Allowance or the Universal Credit health element will be considered new claimants, unless they stopped receiving Universal Credit as a result of increased earnings and then return to payment within six months….
Welfare reform: health-related and disability benefits
Keep up-to-date with the main changes
https://cpag.org.uk/welfare-rights/whats-new/welfare-reform-health-and-disability-benefits Keep up-to-date with the main changes included in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, the Universal Credit Bill and the Employment Rights Bill, affecting personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA), jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) and statutory sick pay (SSP), including proposals for PIP health assessments, work capability assessments, and…
Universal Credit Migration Notice – Migration Notices
https://www.turn2us.org.uk/get-support/information-for-your-situation/universal-credit-migration-notice/migration-notices If you have received a Universal Credit Migration Notice letter, reading this guide will help in understanding your next steps.
Supplementary submission to Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry into safeguarding vulnerable claimants
https://www.nawra.org.uk/2024/11/supplementary-submission-to-work-and-pensions-committees-inquiry-into-safeguarding-vulnerable-claimants/ Following NAWRA’s previous submission for the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into safeguarding vulnerable claimants, we were invited to submit a supplementary submission to the new Committee who have reopened the inquiry. We were asked only to raise new issues so focused on –
ESA claimants who migrate to universal credit should no longer be asked to supply a fit note or have conditionality applied
As detailed in rightsnet, https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/esa-claimants-who-migrate-to-universal-credit-should-no-longer-be-asked-to-supply-a-fit-note-or-have-conditionality-applied Mr Couling told today’s Move to UC stakeholder meeting that, as a result of feedback received, the online claim process now includes a question asking the applicant if they are currently in receipt of ESA, thereby automatically including the information on the system. Mr Couling added that the fix only…
Proposed benefit and pension rates 2025/2026.
https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpaper/2286682/files Proposed benefit and pension rates 2025/2026. 14p.
Completing the Implementation of Universal Credit
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-11-12/hcws205 DWP will steadily increase the number of migration notices being sent to people receiving ESA over the next months and are aiming to issue 63,000 migration notices each month from February, sending the final notices in early December 2025 and fully moving people to Universal Credit and closing legacy benefits by the end of…
Welfare trends report – October 2024
https://obr.uk/wtr/welfare-trends-report-october-2024/ Our Welfare trends report (WTR) examines the drivers of welfare spending. In this WTR, we focused on working-age incapacity benefits. It covers the history of incapacity benefits and incapacity benefit onflows and off-flows since 2010.
DWP and Jobcentre Plus bank holiday arrangements
DWP and Jobcentre Plus opening times are different for the August bank holiday. On Monday 26 August offices and phone lines are closed. To make sure people get their payment on a day when Jobcentre Plus offices are open, some payments will be paid early. If the expected payment date is Monday 26 August, benefits will…