UC Go-Live dates

shawn - 20 October 2015 10:14 AM

UC was supposed to hit West Dorset and Weymouth and Portland yesterday .... though no gov.uk press release .... did it happen?!

Full list of roll out dates to April 2016

How does one tell?

Queue at the library PC?

Here’s today’s 25 jobcentre areas:

Atherstone | Bromsgrove | Caernarfon | Carmarthen | Malvern | Stafford | Swadlincote | Heanor | Alfreton | Belper | Abertillery | Ebbw Vale | Tredegar | Ammandford | Llanelli | Bangor | Dolgellau | Machynlleth | Porthmadog | Pwllheli | Brecon | Llandrindod Wells | Newton | Welshpool | Ystradgynlais

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-now-available-in-over-60-of-jobcentres-in-the-uk

Blimey- how do you pronounce the last one?

1964 - 26 October 2015 10:38 AM

Blimey- how do you pronounce the last one?

Us -strad - gun - lice

Now post a recording of your pronunciation of Machynlleth!

ps Shouldn’t Newton be Newtown?

Gareth Morgan - 26 October 2015 10:59 AM

Shouldn’t Newton be Newtown?

Yes, says Newtown here -

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/453657/universal-credit-national-expansion-tranche-three-and-four.pdf

- but not in today’s DWP news release

Another 16 jobcentres from today -
 
Bedminster |  Beeston | Bishopsworth | Bristol Central | Dundee Wellgate | Hayes | Houghton-le-Spring | Kingston | Louth | Skegness | Southwick | Spalding | Sunderland | Twickenham | Uxbridge | Washington

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-now-available-in-470-jobcentres

And in the digital service part post-codes CRO 2 and SE1 5 go live today

22 more jobcentres from today -

Diss | North Kensington | St Marylebone | Westminster | Exeter | Barnsbury | Finsbury Park | Highgate | Scarborough | Whitby | Honiton | Selby | Haverfordwest | Milford Haven | Pembroke Dock | Tiverton | Aberystwyth | Cardigan | Barnstaple | Bideford | Newton Abbot | Totnes

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-now-available-in-nearly-70-of-all-jobcentres

17 more sites from today:

Aberdeen Ebury House | Aylesbury | Bathgate | Broxburn | Buckie | Chesham | Elgin | Forres | High Wycombe | Ipswich | Ipswich ‘MyGo’ Hub | Livingston | Milton Keynes | Oldbury | Smethwick | Tipton | West Bromwich

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-now-available-in-over-500-jobcentres

in operational stakeholders today we had an update on the current plan for rollout of UC…

From May 2016 the digital service will begin to rollout and will go to 5 jobcentre areas per month (this will be the whole jobcentre area not part postcodes as currently). Therefore in those areas there will be no new claims for legacy benefits as there are no gateway conditions in the digital service.

Additionally, once the digital service is within a jobcentre area any claims for UC on the live system in that area will have to transfer to the digital system - this will have to be done by the claimant making a new claim!! DWP are going to test out how this will work in a jobcentre at the end of January 2016 - we should get further feedback on this in due course.

From some date in 2017 the digital rollout will accelerate to 50 jobcentre areas per month. And then from 2018 the migration of people on legacy benefits over to UC will start with a projected finish date of 2020/2021.

Apparently today is the first day the 2021 finish date has been said in public!

Interesting .. will the end January trial be just for existing UC claimants (already on the ‘live system’) or will they accept new UC claims as well? - Any clues where this will be?

Five job centre areas per month sounds like fairly slow progress -  less than 1 in 15 areas covered by the end of next year.

Hi Jon

They said they didn’t know where the trial would be or any details. As I understand it this trial is just about seeing how people on the live system cope with having to transfer to the digital system so I think it will be current live cases only.

I think the 5 jobcentres a month is an example of the ‘test and learn’ approach to see if they are ‘landing safely’ before expanding out to 50 jobcentres a month…

Thanks Daphne - certainly plenty of ‘test’ - not so sure about ‘learn’

I couldn’t possibly comment…

Another 12 jobcentres take universal credit claims for single people from today -

Darlington | Killingworth | Whitley Bay | North Shields | Wallsend | Northampton | Matlock | Clay Cross | Staveley | Shirebrook | Bolsover | Watford

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-now-available-in-70-of-all-jobcentres