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COVID-19
What's Changed?
Summary
Job Retention Scheme
Job Support Scheme
Self-Employed Income Support Scheme
Minimum Income Floor
What is 'self-isolating'?
What is 'shielding'?
Conditionality
Jobcentre Appointments
Extra £20 a week
Local Housing Allowance
Suspension of certain DWP debts
Free School Meals
Child Benefit claims
Council Tax Hardship Fund
Prisoners on temporary release
Managed Migration Pilot
Law and Guidance
Universal Credit
Is claiming UC the best option?
Eligibility rules for UC
Earnings Limit?
New claim for UC?
When to claim
ID Verification
Claimant Commitment
Lost Job
Wages Dropped
Self-employed
Surplus Earnings
Housing Costs
Rent Increases
Stuck abroad?
Help with Childcare Costs
Bereavement
Tax Credits
The Basics
£500 payment
Self-isolating
Self-employed
Wages Dropped
Unpaid Leave
Furloughed Worker
Lost Job
Help with Childcare Costs
Bereavement
Contacting HMRC
Housing Benefit
The Basics
Lost Job
Wages Dropped
Self-employed
Moving Home
Temporary Absences
Stuck abroad?
Bedroom Tax issues
Bereavement
Sickness/Disability Benefits
PIP, DLA and AA
Statutory Sick Pay
Employment and Support Allowance
Fit Notes
Medical Assessments
Appeals
Extra Help
Free School Meals
Covid Winter Grant Payment
Test & Trace Support Payment
UC Change in Circumstances Advance
Discretionary Housing Payments
Council Tax Bills
Charitable Help
New Style JSA
FAQs
Can someone who is furloughed claim UC?
I made a claim for UC a few weeks ago and will soon receive the SEISS payment - will I end up being overpaid UC?
My hours at work have been cut, can I stay on my Tax Credits?
My tenancy starts on Monday. I'm self-isolating so can't move - I'm on UC can I get help with my new rent?
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Moving Home
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New claim for PC / HB?
Termination of existing PC / HB awards
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Polygamous marriages
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Protecting MACs already on PC or HB
Losing couple status
Moving Home
2 week HB run-on
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Working age to Mixed age Couple
Younger member on IR-ESA, IB-JSA or IS?
Older member on IR-ESA, IB-JSA or IS?
Neither on IR-ESA, IB-JSA or IS?
Single to Couple
Responsible for a child?
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What if younger member can't claim UC
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Comparing Pension Credit & Housing Benefit to UC
Pensioner Premium
How much UC?
Worse off examples
Standard Letters
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Registering an intention to claim
Couples
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Does everyone have to have one?
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how to accept
Cooling off period
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couples
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gov.uk verify
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Tax Credits
'Overlapping' payments
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Conditionality
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Keeping a claim going
Change in Circs
Self-Employed?
Info / Evidence requested?
Annual Verification
Lost login details?
Problem Areas
Wrongly Advised to Claim
Who is Being Wrongly Advised to Claim?
Move within LA
Tax Credits
Mixed Age Couples
Moving into 'Specified accommodation'
Claiming a Contributory Benefit
Challenging an ESA found fit decision
Why does it matter?
Ending a Claim
Claiming Compensation
Large Families
ESA to UC
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Failed to attend ID interview
Failing to accept claimant commitment
Failing to Provide Evidence
What should they do?
Standard Letters
How Much
How Calculated
Transitional SDP Element
Who Gets It?
UC award starts on or after 27th Jan 21
UC award starts before 27th Jan 21
How Much?
How long will it last?
Erosion
When would it end?
Couples
Maximising entitlement
Who gets the Severe Disability Premium?
Elements/Needs
Standard Allowance
Child Element
Definitions
Change in Circs
No Child Benefit in payment
Two Child Limit
Exceptions
Multiple Births
Adoption
Non-parental caring
Non-consensual sex
Order of Children
Interaction with Benefit Cap
Scrapped plans
Supreme Court Challenge
Disabled Child Element
Limited Capability for Work/Related Activities Element
Moved on to UC from IR-ESA
On Old Style Contributory ESA
On New-Style ESA?
Treated as having a Limited Capability for Work
Limited Capability for Work and a Carer?
IB/SDA to UC?
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The work condition
The childcare costs condition
The payment condition
The notification condition
How Much
How changes affect help with childcare
The Regulations
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Whose income counts?
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What Counts?
Lump Sum Payments
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Verification/RTI
Information for employers
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4 weekly wages
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Income
Expenses
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Start Up Period
Minimum Income Floor
Gainfully Self-Employed?
Work Allowance
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Starting/Finishing Work
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Examples
What should a claimant do?
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Separating Couples
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Impact
Minimising Impact
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Sanctions
Deductions
Maximising
Elements
Housing Costs
Timing
Better off on UC?
Worse off on UC?
Who is worse off?
Compensation?
Standard Letters
Payments
Main Principles
How Paid?
Advance Payments
Benefit Transfer Advance
New Claim Advance
Change in Circs Advance
Budgeting Advances
Repayment Cap
Fraudulent Claims
1st Payment
Delays
Missing payment?
Alternative Payment Arrangements
Needing Support
Twice Monthly
To Landlord
Trusted Partner / Landlord Portal
When can they be made?
How do you apply
When Paid
How Much Should be Paid?
To claimant in error
Arrears Still Increasing
APA Stopped?
Switchback
DHP for Benefit Cap?
FAQs
Split Payments
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Deductions
What for / Priorities?
How Much
Loss of benefit penalty for benefit fraud
Sanctions
Advance Payments
Third Party Deductions
TPDs for Rent Arrears
TPDs for Arrears on Supported Housing
TPDs for Ineligible Service Charges
TPDs for Water Arrears
TPDs for Court Fines
TPDs for Council Tax
Child Support Payments
Hardship Payments
Benefit Overpayments
Civil Penalties
Causing Hardship?
Stopped?
Suspended
Terminated
Overpayments
Main Principles
From Landlord?
From Claimant?
Fraud Penalty
Civil Penalty
Recoverable?
What should the DWP do?
How Much?
Challenging Decisions
Hardship Payments
Standard Letters
Housing Costs
Problem Areas
50% Housing Costs
Non-Dep Deduction wrongly taken
No Housing Costs Element in award
Supported Housing
New baby
Service charges
Who cannot get help
What's Covered
Rent
Home Owners
Service Charges
Size Criteria
Who gets a bedroom?
Special Groups
Temporary Absences
Bedroom Tax rules
LHA rules
April 2017 Changes
Previously on HB?
Non-dependant Deductions
What are they?
When is no deduction made?
How Much?
Minimising Deductions
Temporary Stay?
Non-dep or Lodger?
Students
Non-Dep Change in Circs
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Joint Tenants
Non-Dep Couples
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Supported Housing
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Occupation
Fleeing Violence
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Decant/Repairs
Other Absence
Two Homes
Moving Home
Rehab
How Much?
Social Housing
How Much?
Rent Free Weeks
53 week rent year
Bedroom Tax
How It Works
Size Criteria
What is a Bedroom?
Couples
Access to child
Disabled Child
Carer
Foster Carer
Armed Forces Non-Dep
Student Non-Dep
Away From Home?
Two Child Limit
How Much is Deducted?
Excluded
Non-couple joint tenants
Death
Minimising Impact
When to Challenge
Size of Room
Use of Room
Panic Room
Couples
Disabled Adult?
Access to Child
Overnight Carer
DHPs
Student Non-Dep
Human Rights
How to Challenge
Case Law
April 2017 Changes
Differences to HB
Non-dependant Deductions
Market Rents
Unreasonably high rent
Temporary Accommodation
Proposed LHA 'Cap'
Temporary Accommodation
Definition
Moving In
Moving Out
Benefit Cap
Old rules
Specified Accommodation
Definition
Moving In
Moving Out
Benefit Cap
Problems getting HB?
Two Homes
What about floating support?
Standard Letters
Private Rented
How Much
LHA Rules
Under 35's
Non-dependant Deductions
Lodgers
Joint Tenants
Home Ownership
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Which Loans Count?
How Much help?
Standard Interest
Service Charges
Shared-Ownership
From When?
How to get it
How Long For?
Paying back the loan
Changing from SMI to loan
Service Charges
Category A
Category B
Category C
Category D
Ineligible Charges
Intensive Housing Management
Excessive Charges
Variable Service Charges
Problem Areas
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Standard Letters
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What
Who
How
When/Time Limits
What next?
Civil penalty
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What's Changed?
Moving Home
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