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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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SECTION E: UNIVERSAL CREDIT
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
SECTION E: UNIVERSAL CREDIT
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SECTION E: UNIVERSAL CREDIT
Chapter 14: Universal credit
1. What is universal credit?
Box E.1: Universal credit migration
2. Do you qualify?
3. Joint claims
4. Aged 16 or 17
5. How do you claim?
Box E.2: Claim not required: change in status
6. Date of claim
7. Late claims and backpayments
8. The decision
9. How are you paid?
10. Alternative payments
11. Deductions
12. Change of circumstances
13. Care homes and hospitals
14. Prisoners
Chapter 15: Calculating universal credit
1. How is universal credit worked out?
2. The maximum amount
Box E.3: Universal credit rates
3. The standard allowance
4. Child amounts
5. Housing costs amount
6. Work capability amount
7. Carer amount
8. Childcare costs amount
9. The work allowance
10. The benefit cap
11. How is the cap applied?
12. When the cap does not apply
13. Transitional protection
Chapter 16: Earnings, income and capital
A. EARNINGS
1. Earnings
2. Earnings from employment
3. Earnings from self-employment
4. Permitted expenses from self-employment
5. Minimum income floor
6. Surplus earnings
7. Notional earnings
B. INCOME OTHER THAN EARNINGS
8. Income
9. How income is calculated
10. Benefits
11. Pension income
12. Payments for your home
13. Employment and training schemes
14. Compensation schemes
15. Miscellaneous income
16. Notional income
C. CAPITAL
17. Capital limits
18. Assumed income from capital
19. What is included as capital?
20. How is capital valued?
21. Your home
22. Personal possessions
23. Compensation schemes
24. Right to receive income or payment in future
25. Benefit arrears
26. Business assets
27. Other capital
28. Notional capital
Chapter 17: Your responsibilities
1. Introduction
Box E.4: Which work-related conditions apply to you?
2. The claimant commitment
3. Work-focused interview condition
4. Work preparation condition
5. Work search condition
6. When does the work search condition not apply?
7. Work availability condition
Chapter 18: Sanctions
1. Introduction
2. The sanction period
3. Lowest-level sanctions
4. Low-level sanctions
5. Medium-level sanctions
6. Higher-level sanctions
7. Voluntarily leaving your job or losing pay
8. Misconduct
9. Good reason
Box E.5: How to avoid a sanction
10. How the sanction is calculated: universal credit
11. How the sanction is calculated: ‘new style’ ESA and JSA
12. Challenging sanction decisions
Chapter 19: Hardship payments
1. Introduction
2. What is hardship?
3. How much do you get?
4. How do you claim?
5. Recovering hardship payments
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Disability Rights UK. "SECTION E: UNIVERSAL CREDIT." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266663CITANCHOR.
Disability Rights UK. "SECTION E: UNIVERSAL CREDIT." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266663CITANCHOR.
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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