DWP strips 180,000 people of benefits in forced move to Universal Credit

James Rodger

21 May 2024 at 1:02 pm·2-min read

The Department for Work and Pensions has now stripped OVER 180,000 people of their benefits in a forced move to Universal Credit. The DWP has stripped over 180,000 people of their benefits through its ‘managed migration’ process,where the department is forcing people on old-style benefits like Tax Credits onto Universal Credit.

It equates to a massive 28 per cent of all claimants who the DWP has so far forced to apply for Universal Credit., the Canary reports. The Canary reports DWP has stripped 28% (184,120) of people it has sent migration notices to of their benefits entirely.

58 per cent (107,520) of these people ending up without benefits were women and 99.9 per cent (183,970) of these, were again, previously claiming Tax Credits. The DWP says it "assumed an overall non-claim rate of 3% for all legacy benefit types, based on what had happened with the earlier move from incapacity benefit to ESA."

It also added: "Before the migration started, it had no evidence to use to assess how many Tax Credit claimants would not transfer to UC." It said: "Around one in five households on Tax Credits who received a migration notice have not moved to Universal Credit and so have had their benefit stopped.

"The median value of Tax Credits received by people who did not claim Universal Credit was £3,200 a year. The Department has a limited understanding of why some people do not switch to Universal Credit, but says it is reassured by having received only 20 complaints about the migration process from April to December 2023."

It said: "The Department expects the non-claim rate for households claiming its legacy benefits, who are being migrated from April 2024, will be much lower at around 4%. However, even a small proportion of people not transferring to Universal Credit could translate into a substantial number of people facing financial hardship."

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