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End your tax credits award when you start to claim Universal Credit - how to end tax credits, personal details, income and self-employed income
Parents on Universal Credit can now receive up to £1,311 more a year in childcare support following a 6.7% boost coming into effect, as the government’s expansion of free childcare for working parents delivers 150,000 places in a week.
Information about Universal Credit trials and pilots
The Prime Minister has outlined a package of sweeping reforms to put work at the heart of welfare and deliver on his “moral mission” to give everyone who is able to work, the best possible chance of staying in, or...
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge on 2024.
If you want to claim Universal Credit you must verify your identity. This guide for claimants and people supporting them explains how to do that.
These statistics cover the number of people on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work.
How tax credits affect your benefits including Child Benefit and Housing Benefit
Only fill in this capability for work questionnaire (UC50) if you’re asked to do so, this is not a claim form.
Statistics about the policy that provides support for a maximum of 2 children in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit, which came into effect in April 2017.
Our 2022 to 2024 strategy for implementing the final phase of Universal Credit.
Management information providing daily counts of Universal Credit declarations (claims) and advances from 1 March to 23 June 2020.
This report provides findings from qualitative and quantitative research with claimants who receive Universal Credit as a family.
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
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