Ministers have drawn up plans to start "slowly" moving benefit claimants onto Universal Credit within weeks. Charities and the government’s welfare watchdog have raised fears over plans to restart the “managed migration” of old-style benefit claimants.
The transfer was put on hold due to Covid - but The Mirror reports it is planned to restart this spring. It is thought The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will start with a small number of Tax Credit claimants, up to a cap of 10,000 households.
They then reportedly plan to remove the cap and move onto disability and other benefit claimants, to have everyone on the new six-in-one benefit by the end of 2024. But the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) warned the change “creates a significant risk” for benefit claimants, many of whom have “complex lives”.
