universal credit working hour rule
I have read somewhere that you have to be working 35hrs per week or earn 35hrs x minimum wage to be entitled to UC. If not you will have to attend looking for work interviews to get a job with better...
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Universal Credit Poll January 2013
Welfare Advisors were polled on a range of questions related to Universal Credit and welfare Reform. A group of around 200 welfare advisors from housing associations, local authorities and voluntary...
View ArticleUnearned income and UC
I get widowed parents allowance from the DWP and widow’s pensions from my late husband’s pension schemes and I’m trying to find out how they will affect Universal Credit (UC). Please consider including...
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Workers on Benefits in the Sunday Times
The Times and the Sunday Times referenced Deven Ghelani in two articles on in-work benefits, renamed ‘Workers on Benefits’ or ‘WOBs’ (through in-work benefits such as tax credits or Universal Credit)....
View ArticleUniversal Credit and Self Employment / Sole Traders.
Dear Policy in Practice, Thank you to you and your team for putting together the Universal Credit Calculator together. It will be very useful for many people. However, I’m afraid it is lacking in the...
View ArticleCharitable Disregards under Universal Credit
Do we know yet if Charitable Disregards will be retained under Universal Credit? Many of the charities make regular payments (eg weekly or monthly) to clients, both to those who are over retirement age...
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Universal Credit and the Benefit Cap: Lewisham Case Study
Lewisham was announced as one of 12 local authority pilots selected to test the local authority role in supporting some of the key objectives of Universal Credit. Lewisham’s objectives for the pilot...
View ArticleThe Benefit Cap – Truth, lies and statistics
The benefit cap came into effect across four London boroughs this week. Some two and a half thousand families across Bromley, Croydon, Enfield and Haringey will be affected. It will apply across the...
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Prepaid Cards & Supported Housing
Think-tank Demos has recently published a report on the benefits of local authorities using prepaid cards for a variety of purposes. At present, they are chiefly used in administering direct payments...
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How Will Universal Credit Affect Homeless People?
The Government say that Universal Credit will help better tackle poverty while still supporting the most vulnerable people in society. However, while many organisations that work with and advocate...
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Universal Credit Timeline: When will Universal Credit affect you?
The following post has been provided by the Money Advice Service who provide free and unbiased, independent advice on a wide range of money topics including Universal Credit. Universal Credit is a new...
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Taking stock of Universal Credit
This week the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, admitted that the Universal Credit roll-out is behind schedule and is likely to go beyond 2017. In a written statement, he stated that...
View ArticleImplementation of Universal Credit
Policy in Practice were on Sky News debating the implementation of Universal Credit with Frank Field. Universal Credit may have its troubles, but the alternative is that we are stuck with the broken...
View ArticleDirect Payments under Universal Credit
Policy in Practice Director, Deven Ghelani, appeared on Sky News discussing reaction to welfare reform and the introduction of the system whereby housing benefit payments will no longer go directly to...
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On Question Time and the Welfare Debate
When I watch BBC Question Time from my sofa at home, I often only hear the first few comments before I start shouting at the TV, and texting my mates making fun of the ridiculous argument that was...
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The Government’s Vision for Welfare Reform
In a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, Iain Duncan Smith reinforced his ambitions for the welfare state and the role it ought to play in our society. At its heart was the idea that there needs...
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Austerity and Welfare Reform: Should we separate the two?
Policy in Practice was invited to speak to the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) on welfare reform, along with Steve Fothergill, from the Centre for Regional and Social Research at Sheffield...
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Universal Credit and zero-hours contracts
Zero-hours contracts have been in the news lately, and hit the headlines again today in the context of Universal Credit. These contracts can tie workers into in-work poverty, through insecure and low...
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Welfare Reform: Reflection and Expectations for 2015
Policy in Practice with the Welfare Reform Club recently hosted a networking event that provided an opportunity to reflect on the events of the last year, and make our predictions for welfare reform as...
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Cutting benefits for overweight people – a nutritionist’s view
Earlier this week it was reported that David Cameron asked an adviser to the Department of Health to review the effects of cutting benefits of – among others – people with problems with their weight....
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