The government has announced 'The process will resume on 9 May and will be carefully managed. Claimants will gradually be notifed of when they will be asked to move to Universal Credit so as to complete the process by 2024.'
Further details are given in 'Completing the Move to Universal Credit'-
'Of the 2.6 million households remaining on legacy benefits in April 2022, should they choose to claim UC today, we estimate around 1.4 million (55%) would have a higher entitlement on UC, 300,000 would see no change and approximately 900,000 households (35%) would have a lower entitlement.'
Managed Migration- transitional protection paid
The advantage to the client here is-
'Underpinning managed migration is our commitment to transitional financial protection to ensure that eligible households we move to UC do not have a lower award on UC at the point we move them if their UC entitlement is lower than their entitlement on legacy benefts.'
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The government has not released many details yet of how they will select which clients move over frst. 'We will soon start moving small numbers of legacy claimants on to UC, with a focus on refning the processes and systems for doing so to support our claimants as effectively as possible.' also..
'multi-site approach across the country with a small number of claimants,
approximately fve hundred initially, being brought into the mandatory migration process'
This is how clients having mostly been moving to The UC system since it started in 2013. It will continue.
Voluntary Migration-no transitional protection paid
This is still available. Some clients are better off and some worse off, so be careful to get a better off calculation before you advise your client to apply down this route. They would also have to become comfortable with working within the UC system.
The transitional SDP element will still be available for those who had a Severe Disability Premium as part of their IS/ JSA(IB) / ESA(IR) in the month before they claim.
The big picture-
'We estimate 3.8 million households (53%) have a higher notional entitlement on UC, 1.2 million (17%) have no change and around 2.2 million (30%) are estimated to have a lower notional entitlement before any protections are applied. This is a notable increase in the proportion of households with higher notional entitlement since 2012.'
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more basic-
An Overview of Universal Credit 2022
Getting the rent paid-
Housing Costs and Universal Credit 2022
Advanced-
Universal Credit – the Tricky Parts 2022