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As one or more of your benefits will be ending soon, you need to move to Universal Credit.鈥�
Guidance on getting extra payments to help with the cost of living from 2022 to 2024 if you were entitled to certain benefits or tax credits.
If you don鈥檛 have enough to live on while you wait for your first payment you may be able to get an advance of your first Universal Credit payment.
The amount you earn, and how often you're paid your wages, can affect your Universal Credit.
You may be able to claim New Style Jobseeker鈥檚 Allowance (JSA) with, or instead of, Universal Credit, depending on your National Insurance record.
How Universal Credit is affected by having money, savings and investments. We call this 鈥榗apital鈥�.
You may be able to claim New Style Employment and Support Allowance with, or instead of Universal Credit, depending on your National Insurance record.
Guidance on claiming Universal Credit if you're a student.
If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs.
Help to understand debts and deductions taken from Universal Credit payments and who to contact about your debts and deductions if you're struggling financially.
If your Universal Credit is reduced because of a sanction or penalty for fraud, you can apply for a hardship payment to help meet your immediate basic essential needs.
Financial help and support when you first move to Universal Credit from your current benefits or tax credits.
Information for existing and new Universal Credit claimants with more than 2 children.
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.
More detailed information about New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for stakeholders and claimants.
If you鈥檙e in a couple where one of you is State Pension age, and you get a Migration Notice, you both need to move to Universal Credit as your benefits will end soon.
Your Universal Credit payments can be reduced if you do not complete your agreed work-related activities without a good reason. This is known as a sanction.
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
You might receive an additional payment to help you move to Universal Credit, if you receive a Migration Notice letter.
You need to move to Universal Credit if you get a Migration Notice letter and you鈥檙e State Pension age, as tax credits are ending soon.
Don鈥檛 include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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