End your tax credits
What happens next
If your details are incorrect you’ll have to phone HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) within 30 days. HMRC will correct your details and tell you what happens next.
If you need to report your self-employed income, you’ll need to send your ‘award declaration’ to HMRC.
You will not have to do anything else if the details on your award review are correct or you if do not have to report any employed or self-employed income.
There can be a gap between when you stop getting tax credits and when your Universal Credits payments start.
You may be able to get an advance on your first Universal Credit payment if:
- you’ve recently been receiving another benefit
- you’re in urgent financial need
Check with your work coach if this applies to you.
If you’re getting income from self-employment
You need to report your earnings every month when you get Universal Credit. You’ll be sent a ‘statement of earnings’ form to do this.
If you’re claiming any other benefits
Universal Credit will replace:
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Housing Benefit
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Income Support
Once you’ve claimed Universal Credit, these benefits will stop and you’ll start getting Universal Credit instead.
You’ll continue to get any other benefits.