The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently announced plans to restart the ‘managed migration’ process of moving legacy benefit claimants over to Universal Credit from next month.
Up to 2.6million people on older style benefits including 1.2million currently claiming Income-Related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and one million on Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits, 100,000 on Income-Based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and Housing Benefit, plus 200,000 on Income Support.
The DWP also recently announced that only 500 people will initially be moved to Universal Credit through the managed migration process, but this will increase over the coming months in order to complete the move for all claimants by the end of 2024.
