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 –
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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.
Calculate the Transitional Element from UC Managed Migration
https://benefits-calculator.turn2us.org.uk/?mc_cid=c9249f35d5&mc_eid=b0d598ca68 We are pleased to announce that the Turn2us Benefits Calculator now calculates the transitional element within Universal Credit for people who are moving from the old benefit system to Universal Credit, via Managed Migration. If you receive any of the following benefits you will be asked to move to Universal Credit sometime before the…
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.
How the transitional element is calculated when you move to Universal Credit
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-the-transitional-element-is-calculated-when-you-move-to-universal-credit You might receive an additional payment to help you move to Universal Credit, if you receive a Migration Notice letter.
Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and May 2024.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-may-2024 The benefit cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that most working age people can get and affects a number of benefits. The amount of benefit a household receives is reduced to ensure claimants do not receive more than the cap limit. The benefit cap can be applied through either: Universal…
Universal Credit Deductions: Impact and Recommendations
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publications/designing-out-deductions-how-to-address-the-welfare-debt-trap Benefit deductions mean that people receive lower benefit payments in order to repay debts. They arise largely from debts that claimants owe to government itself. This report details the impact that such deductions can have on people receiving Universal Credit, and outlines policies that can prevent and alleviate deductions. Deductions have been normalised: 2.25…
Desperation in plain sight
New Trussell Trust research is both alarming and shaming. Labour cannot defer action while waiting for an economic upturn https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/03/the-guardian-view-on-poverty-in-britain-desperation-in-plain-sight?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other