People who receive benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) each month could have to wait weeks to get the full increase in benefit rates from April.
27.02.2024 - 18:04 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A fifth of households claiming old-style benefits from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have had them stopped after failing to switch to Universal Credit, a new report has found.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has called on the government to ensure people are getting the benefits they are entitled to as the process of moving people off so-called legacy benefits, known as managed migration, continues
The government had originally planned to complete the move from legacy benefits to Universal Credit by March 2025, but the changeover is taking at least six years longer than first planned - and costing £900 million more than first thought - according to the report.
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As of March last year, the NAO said about 2.2 million households were still getting old benefits like working tax credit, child tax credit, housing benefit, income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance, and income-related employment and support allowance (ESA). By December, there were 6.3 million people claiming Universal Credit across Great Britain, the report said.
But the report warned that 21 per cent of households claiming old benefits have not switched to Universal Credit after being told to, and have had these older benefits stopped. Almost all of these households had been receiving tax credits, the report said.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has estimated that 80 per cent of tax credit claimants will move to Universal Credit with outstanding debt. According to the report, the DWP has said it will deduct an amount from someone’s benefit until the
People who receive benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) each month could have to wait weeks to get the full increase in benefit rates from April.
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