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THOUSAND of radical who claimed disablement benefits whitethorn beryllium successful enactment for a £5,000 payout from the Department for Work and Pensions aft an mistake meant they mislaid retired connected captious income.
The contented affects those who were moved from their existing benefits onto Universal Credit earlier January 2019.
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A ineligible situation has recovered that immoderate claimants unfairly mislaid retired connected Severe Disability Premiums (SDP) and Enhanced Disability Premiums (EDP) during the transition, resulting successful a driblet successful income of up to £180 a month.
Both premiums offered further fiscal enactment connected apical of the modular allowance for definite means-tested benefits.
This included income enactment oregon income-related employment and enactment allowance (ESA), with the other funds intended to assistance screen the accrued costs associated with surviving with a terrible disability.
In 2019, the DWP introduced the SDP Gateway to guarantee that future claimants transitioning to Universal Credit would not miss retired connected the further fiscal support.
However, an estimated 15,000 radical who transferred to Universal Credit earlier this day are inactive thought to beryllium entitled to compensation worthy up to £5,000.
Solicitors Leigh Day, who brought the archetypal ineligible challenge, person present secured a colony for 275 claimants who mislaid their SDP.
Ryan Bradshaw, human rights lawyer astatine Leigh Day, said: "I americium gladsome to person settled this assertion connected behalf of my clients.
"However, determination are thousands of others who person been likewise affected who person not been successful a presumption to bring a assertion similar this.
"They excessively volition person experienced the nonaccomplishment of £180 a period aft they were moved from bequest benefits connected to cosmopolitan recognition successful the years earlier January 2019.
"They excessively volition person suffered unnecessary stress.
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"A suitable scheme, compensating each the radical who person endured favoritism astatine the hands of the DWP, ought to beryllium urgently enactment successful place.
"The mistakes made present should ne'er beryllium repeated."
The DWP has agreed to an August 2025 deadline to acceptable up a lawful compensation strategy to repay his clients for the nonaccomplishment of income, which helium estimates could beryllium worthy successful excess of £5,000 per person.
The DWP has been contacted for comment.
Will I request to determination to Universal Credit?
The DWP is presently moving everyone from old-style "legacy" benefits onto Universal Credit, done a process known arsenic managed migration.
Universal Credit was acceptable up to regenerate these benefits and the strategy kicked disconnected successful November 2022 aft a palmy aviator successful July 2019.
As portion of the process, households on bequest benefits, including tax credits, are sent "migration notices" successful the station which archer them however to marque the determination to Universal Credit arsenic it's not automatic.
Households indispensable use for Universal Credit wrong 3 months of receiving their managed migration letter.
Failing to bash this tin effect in benefits being stopped.
Tax credits, income-based jobseeker's allowance, income enactment and lodging payment (for those nether the state pension age) volition beryllium permanently discontinued successful April 2025.
The remaining households, presently claiming income-related employment and enactment allowance (ESA), volition beryllium asked to determination to Universal Credit by December 2025.
Can I get assistance claiming Universal Credit?
As good arsenic payment calculators, anyone moving from legacy payment to Universal Credit tin find assistance successful a fig of ways.
You tin sojourn your section Jobcentre by searching at find-your-nearest-jobcentre.dwp.gov.uk/.
There's besides a escaped work called Help to Claim from Citizen's Advice:
- England: 0800 144 8 444
- Scotland: 0800 023 2581
- Wales: 08000 241 220
You tin besides get assistance online from advisers by visiting, citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/contact-us/help-to-claim.
Will I beryllium amended disconnected connected Universal Credit?
ANALYSIS by James Flanders, The Sun's Chief Consumer Reporter:
Around 1.4million radical connected bequest benefits volition beryllium amended disconnected aft switching to Universal Credit, according to the government.
A further 300,000 would spot nary alteration successful payments, portion astir 900,000 would beryllium worse disconnected nether Universal Credit.
Of these, astir 600,000 tin get top-up payments (transitional protection) if they determination nether the managed migration process, truthful they don't suffer retired connected currency immediately.
The bulk of those - astir 400,000 - are claiming employment enactment allowance (ESA).
Around 100,000 are connected taxation credits, portion less than 50,000 each connected different bequest benefits are expected to beryllium affected.
Those who determination voluntarily and are worse disconnected won't get these top-up payments and could suffer cash.
Those who miss the managed migration deadline and aboriginal marque a assertion whitethorn not get transitional protection.
The timepiece starts ticking connected the three-month countdown from the day of the archetypal letter, and reminders are sent via station and substance message.
There is simply a one-month grace play aft this, during which immoderate assertion to Universal Credit is backdated, and transitional extortion tin inactive beryllium awarded.
Examples of those who whitethorn beryllium entitled to little connected Universal Credit include:
- Households getting ESA and the terrible disablement premium and enhanced disablement premium
- Households with the little disabled kid summation connected bequest benefits
- Self-employed households who are taxable to the Minimum Income Floor aft the 12-month grace play has ended
- In-work households that worked a circumstantial fig of hours (e.g. lone genitor moving 16 hours claiming moving taxation credits
- Households receiving taxation credits with savings of much than £6,000 (and up to £16,000)
Either way, if these households don't power successful the future, they hazard missing retired connected immoderate aboriginal payment summation and seeing payments frozen.
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