The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has now restarted the ‘managed migration’ process of moving legacy benefit claimants over to Universal Credit, with the aim of completing the transfer for 2.6 million people by the end of 2024.
Up to 2.6 million people on older style benefits including 1.2m 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 will receive these letters, or ‘Migration Notices’ over the coming months.
However, many legacy benefit claimants may not be aware that at the start of the year, the DWP announced that a scheme supporting people making a new claim for Universal Credit will be delivered independently by the Citizens Advice network, in partnership with Citizens Advice Scotland, for another year.
