The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will restart the ‘managed migration’ process of moving up to 2.6 million legacy benefit claimants over to Universal Credit (UC) from Monday, May 9.
Only 500 people will initially be moved to Universal Credit through the managed migration process, however, this is expected to increase over the coming months in order for the DWP to achieve its completion deadline by the end of 2024.
People on older style benefits include: