30,000 Universal Credit migration notices are being sent to clients each month and this should be up to 80,000 by the end of the year. Clients on tax credits are being targeted frst, and the roll out is done in terms of geographical area. The following areas have already started- Bolton and Medway, Truro and Falmouth, the London Borough of Harrow, Northumberland and the wider Cornwall area; Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire, East London and Cheshire; Greater Manchester, North-east Yorkshire and Humber; and Durham and Tees Valley, Kent, North London and East Anglia, West Scotland, West Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and South London.
The government has issued guidance for those having to migrate. Clients should claim within 3 months of the migration notice. This deadline can be extended.
HMRC has reported that ''From April 2022, ... tax credits were permanently closed to all new claims, with all future benefts paid through Universal Credit, administered by the Department for Work and Pensions. Since 2013, 1.75 million customers have moved from tax credits to Universal Credit following a change in their circumstances. From May 2022, we started to migrate the remaining 1.2 million customers. This activity is expected to scale up from April 2023 to a peak of around 80,000 migrations per month. We expect to have completed all the migration activity by March 2025. Within this time frame we also expect to complete the migration of around 30,000 eligible customers from tax credits to Pension Credit. This leaves only a small number of tax credit customers ineligible to claim Universal Credit, for example, International Cases and those without a National Insurance Number. Activity is under way to ensure legislation is in place for April 2025 that effectively closes tax credits.'
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