Home & Garden1 min ago
Universal Credit. Mmmm...
Just completed an interesting excersise. I’ve been a stay at home mum for 18 months since giving up work to look my family who are now a school age daughter and three year old twin boys. I’m starting work full time again in 2 weeks and come January my boys will be entitled to 24 hrs a week free childcare (30 hours p/w stretched over the year). Out of interest, I’ve just looked to see if I will be entitled to any help with childcare costs as, due to wraparound costs, I’ll still have to fork out £288 per week. One of my sons has special needs and should be getting disability living allowance any day now.
Under the existing working tax credits system I would be entitled to £83 per week, which is not to be sniffed at. However under Universal Credit my entitlement is a big fat £0.
No wonder there’s so many complaints about it.
Under the existing working tax credits system I would be entitled to £83 per week, which is not to be sniffed at. However under Universal Credit my entitlement is a big fat £0.
No wonder there’s so many complaints about it.
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2.2 million households are expected to be BETTER off under Universal Credit (by an average of £41 per week), whereas 3.2 million households are expected to be WORSE off (by an average of £48 per week):
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As there are 27.2 million households in the country, that's 1 in 5 of all households who'll see a change one way or the other.
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As there are 27.2 million households in the country, that's 1 in 5 of all households who'll see a change one way or the other.
I can't really answer your question Pasta, but...
Universal Credit will replace the following benefits:
Child Tax Credit
Housing Benefit
Income Support
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Working Tax Credit
Therefore if someone/a family is receiving even a small amount of any of those then they may be affected in some way when moved onto UC.
Universal Credit will replace the following benefits:
Child Tax Credit
Housing Benefit
Income Support
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Working Tax Credit
Therefore if someone/a family is receiving even a small amount of any of those then they may be affected in some way when moved onto UC.
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