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July 2015-April 2016 Planning Assumptions
The remaining JCP areas have been allocated to tranche 3 (Sep-Nov 15) and tranche 4 (Dec 15 - Apr 16)
Still limited to single claimants only (presumably with the same, very restrictive, gateway conditions)
No guarantee that any of this will actually happen, of course….
Has anyone else noticed any changes since the first announcements?
One of our areas has vanished from Tranche 1-2 and reappeared in Tranche 3-4.
If I’m right, this makes writing reliable public information extremely difficult.
If I’m right, this makes writing reliable public information extremely difficult.
Welcome to the DWP.
The “tranches” aren’t too helpful because the JCP boundaries often don’t match the LA boundaries.
(Broadland, Rushcliffe and South Bucks councils don’t seem by listed at all.)
Aberdeenshire is listed under tranche-1 (only) but AFAICS only the north-west portion of Aberdeenshire is listed in the postcode schedule covering Feb-July.
A few LAs are explicitly listed under multiple tranches (e.g. Three Rivers, Watford, Walsall) but many more LAs will be starting different postcodes at different times - it doesn’t seem very consistent.
Probably best to work from the actual postcodes as per the regs where available ( now on http://www.lgbp.co.uk/ucpc/ucpcjuly.html ) - although there are still a few mysteries there - who can explain the hole in the Hartlepool doughnut at Foggy Furze? )
Any ‘planning assumptions’ for August onwards are hardly guaranteed to happen anyway. It’s all got to be done with the ‘old’ computer system.
[ Edited: 16 Feb 2015 at 06:36 pm by Jon Blackwell ]