Martin Lewis issues urgent 'do not ignore' warning to thousands on DWP benefits

Financial adept explained the Department for Work and Pensions alteration could effect successful the nonaccomplishment of their payments

Martin Lewis has fired disconnected a stark three-word informing to DWP benefits claimants: "do not ignore". The money-saving adept is alerting thousands connected benefits to wage attraction to an upcoming displacement that could spot them suffer retired connected their payments if missed.

Those receiving cardinal "legacy benefits" should beryllium connected precocious alert for correspondence from the Department for Work and Pensions. On his BBC podcast, Martin dished retired proposal connected however to smoothly modulation to the caller outgo system.

In a bid to streamline the benefits strategy backmost successful 2012, the Government passed laws to merge six antithetic benefits into 1 means-tested Universal Credit. After aviator runs successful 2019, this strategy was afloat rolled retired successful November 2022.

To cushion the changeover for beneficiaries, ministers person orchestrated a gradual phase-over spanning a fewer years.

This approach, dubbed "managed migration", allows those connected the archetypal six benefits to proceed receiving them arsenic "legacy" for a constricted time, reports Birmingham Live.

Martin's cardinal portion of proposal for those impacted is to support an oculus retired for an important missive from the DWP detailing the steps to power over.

He warned: "On taxation credits, lodging benefit, ESA oregon similar? Don't disregard the important missive - you could suffer your benefits. The Department for Work and Pensions is sending letters to galore radical saying you indispensable present use to power to Universal Credit."

"Don't disregard it - tragically, DWP stats amusement a 3rd person had benefits chopped disconnected aft not applying." This is due to the fact that you request to lodge a caller assertion to beryllium you're eligible erstwhile you determination implicit to Universal Credit.

Official figures propulsion up that successful the past mates of years, the Department for Work and Pensions has dished retired upwards of 1.14 cardinal migration notices.

But if you don't decorativeness your exertion erstwhile you've got a notice, you could find yourself without immoderate benefits.