Online handbook
Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook (for subscribers):
Articles
The most recent articles from our Welfare Rights Bulletin on migration to universal credit:
- Extra! Extra! Transitional SDP element additions (February 2024)
- The transitional element in practice (December 2023)
- 'Backdating' and managed migration to UC (December 2023)
- Managing with migration to UC? (October 2023)
- Managed migration – moving to universal credit (August 2023)
- Managed migration - transitional protection (June 2023)
- Tax credits and managed migration (June 2023)
- UC migration and legacy benefits – the claim is all (April 2023)
- Universal credit managed migration - the age of discovery (August 2022)
Tools and templates
Use our tool to check your work-related requirements and your entitlement to a limited capability for work or limited capability for work related activity element on moving from ESA to UC. It also drafts a note to use to challenge incorrect decisions (for subscribers):
Our judicial review pre-action protocol template letters for advisers:
Before using these letters, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]) for advice on whether judicial review is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates.
Factsheets, information and briefings
Our page explaining the differences between tax credits and universal credit:
- Tax credits - moving on to universal credit (April 2024)
Our briefings on the issues facing claimants going through managed migration
- Managed migration 3 (November 2023)
- Managed migration 2 (August 2023)
- Managed migration 1 (May 2023)
Our briefing for the Work and Pensions Select Committee on managed migration
- Early insight into managed migration (June 2022)
eLearning
Use our free eLearning course for advisers with existing benefit knowledge:
Early Warning System
Our Early Warning System gathers information and evidence on the impact of changes to the benefit system. Send us details of cases: