DWP spells out which benefit claimants will get 'transitional element' in Universal Credit move
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThere are roughly two million Brits still claiming any one of six legacy benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), all of whom are set to get a letter as part of the "manage migration" to the one-for-all Universal Credit (UC) system.
Due to a cost-saving measure, the deadline to make this move has been brought forward to the end of 2025, when all ;egacy claimants will have three months to migrate or lose their benefits entirely.
As part of the sped-up rollout of UC following the pandemic, over a million people have been sent a "migration notice" by the DWP telling them they have three months to apply, or their benefit payments will stop.
The six affected legacy benefits are: working tax credit, child tax credit, housing benefit, income support, jobseeker's allowance and income-related employment and support allowance.
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