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This collection brings together documents, information and updates about Universal Credit for local authority staff.
What Universal Credit means for couples who make a joint claim, including who can make a joint claim and what they will be expected to do in return.
This report provides the main findings from the evaluation of the Universal Credit Pathfinder.
These official statistics under development cover the number of people who have been sent managed migration notices inviting them to claim Universal Credit.
If you have a health condition or disability, you’ll have an assessment to work out how much Universal Credit you can get and what you need to do in return.
You need to move to Universal Credit if you’ve received a Migration Notice letter, as one or more of your benefits will be ending soon.
How the Universal Credit claimant commitment works and what is expected of claimants in return for getting Universal Credit.
Information for employers on how Universal Credit and earnings are worked out, employers' responsibilities and support available.
Guidance and form to apply for grant funding to provide telephone and digital support for people making a new Universal Credit claim.
Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
Information about Universal Credit statistics quality assurance of administrative data.
If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs.
Half a million people claiming old benefits will be invited to claim Universal Credit, unlocking all the work support it offers.
Guidance on claiming Universal Credit if you're a student.
An overview of how people who are claiming tax credits might be affected by Universal Credit.
Universal Credit can include help with housing costs - paying your landlord, what to do if you cannot pay your rent, other help you can get.
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
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