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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently announced plans to restart the ‘managed migration’ process of moving legacy benefit claimants over to Universal Credit from next month.
Up to 2.6million people on older style benefits including 1.2million currently claiming Income-Related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and one million on Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits, 100,000 on Income-Based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and Housing Benefit, plus 200,000 on Income Support.
The DWP also recently announced that only 500 people will initially be moved to Universal Credit through the managed migration process, but this will increase over the coming months in order to complete the move for all claimants by the end of 2024.
Legacy benefit claimants will receive a ‘migration notice’ giving them three months notice of when the ‘managed migration’ process will begin.
However, there are three ways people will migrate to UNiversal Credit, outlined in the DWP’s ‘2022-24 strategy for implementing the final phase of Universal Credit’ - which you can read in full here.
These are:
The DWP estimates that 1.4m people on legacy benefits may be better off when they move to Universal Credit - some 54 per cent.
However, by those same estimations the DWP figures suggest that 900,000 people (35%) will be worse off and 300,000 will see no change (11.5%).
Natural migration has been in place since the introduction of Universal Credit and happens when a change of circumstances such as a change in employment status or family situation happens so they need to make a new claim for a benefit that Universal Credit has replaced and they will ‘naturally’ migrate to Universal Credit.
The DWP also explained: “Covid-related easements that
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