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House of Commons UC guidance
I note that the House of Commons deposited papers have not had any revisions since October 2019.
Can anyone throw any light on how much authority or weight they now carry when trying to understand the workings of UC?
When trying to communicate the workings of UC to staff the ADM is authoritative, simply because staff have access to it.
The deposited papers seem to be “UC Lite” for MPs to understand but I don’t think they’re distributed internally.
When trying to communicate the workings of UC to staff the ADM is authoritative, simply because staff have access to it.
The deposited papers seem to be “UC Lite” for MPs to understand but I don’t think they’re distributed internally.
Thanks, Dan. Just wondered because my impression has been that the guidance contains on operational procedures which is not included in the ADM. That may just be because I haven’t come across it in the ADM.
Guidance has just been updated - https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpaper/2282591/details
We’ll be updating our resources page asap - should be this week…
Resources page now fully updated.
New items on this updating includes -
- Bed and breakfast
- Building the claimant commitment
- Calculating rent as a monthly amount and rent free weeks in social rented sector
- Claimant history
- Conditionality requirements when temporarily laid off from work
- COVID changes to the WCA process for UC and NSESA
- COVID conditionality requirements when temporarily laid off from work
- COVID coronavirus emergency resources list
- COVID coronavirus guidance for universal credit
- Eligibility for universal credit
- Food banks
- Housing costs contributions, non-dependants
- Insolvency
- Intensive Personalised Employment Support guidance
- Journal messaging
- New style benefits
- New style ESA dual claims
- New style ESA only
- New style JSA dual claims
- New style JSA only
- Relevant periods for LCWRA
- Safeguarding
Thanks for this Daphne. I am reassured to see the guidance being updated.
As an aside I note that some of the ADM documents look different today so I infer that they have been updated too (I don’t see any way of checking when they were last updated.)
Thanks for this Daphne. I am reassured to see the guidance being updated.
As an aside I note that some of the ADM documents look different today so I infer that they have been updated too (I don’t see any way of checking when they were last updated.)
You can check by clicking on “+ show all updates” at the bottom of the main ADM page. A whole load of updates were applied on 5 November, listed here.
Thanks for this Daphne. I am reassured to see the guidance being updated.
As an aside I note that some of the ADM documents look different today so I infer that they have been updated too (I don’t see any way of checking when they were last updated.)
You can check by clicking on “+ show all updates” at the bottom of the main ADM page. A whole load of updates were applied on 5 November, listed here.
Have never spotted that. Thanks, Charles.
The most recently revised ADM sections are much harder to navigate than before because they no longer include a complete contents at the start.
The House of Commons Library guidance has been updated again and we have updated our resources page accordingly.
Please note, if you reference any of the documents anywhere, that although many of the version numbers have not changed the urls have so you will still need to update them.
New items this time include -
Afghan locally employed staff
Armed Force
Claimants at risk of eviction
Claimants served in Armed Forces
Kickstart Scheme
Protecting claimants at risk (seems to have replace safeguarding)
Restart scheme - health journey
Self-reported earnings
Serious violence and gang culture
Work-related requirements for claimants with children (re-appeared)
Items that have been removed -
Biographical checks
Covid resources list
New style benefits
NOn-dependants
Safeguarding (though replaced by protecting claimants at risk)
Use and occupation agreement
Work Programme
Enjoy!
Stuart has pointed out to me that it looks like -
- non-dependant info is now in Housing Cost contributions non dependants; and
- use and occupation is now in Claimants who must pay housing costs without having a tenancy
Updated guidance deposited in the House of Commons - https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpaper/2284317/details - just 6 months since last lot.
We are updating our resources section as we speak…
Guidance now updated - on our resources page - tho not sure how reliable it is - I noticed there has been no update on terminal illness and it still says 6 months!!
Items that have been removed are -
- Afghan locally employed staff - but replaced I think by Supporting citizens arriving from Afghanistan
- Claimants served in armed forces
- Kickstart
-Payment overview
- Removal of spare room subsidy
Items added are -
- BIographical tests
- Introduction to provision
Guidance now updated - on our resources page - tho not sure how reliable it is - I noticed there has been no update on terminal illness and it still says 6 months!!
I contacted the Library about this and the guidance on terminal illness has now been updated - https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/files/DEP2022-0452/151-Terminal_illness_V20.0.pdf
Thanks Daphne.
(As always I do wish they would put a date of issue on these documents.)
(Ian - I just moved this reply here - it was on another thread by accident I think)
There is no specific date but they all have ‘DEP2022-0452’ in the url which tells you that it’s this year - haven’t worked out what the 0452 means
Having said that they put the DEP2022 on the urls of every piece of guidance regardless of whether it has been changed or not since the last deposit - the terminal illness one also had DEP2022 in the url prior to them amending it, so it isn’t that good an indication!
The ‘0452’ doesn’t relate to the age of the guidance it just (roughly) correlates to the date it was deposited in the library
https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/
By which I mean - it’s roughly the 452nd document deposited in the library in 2022
[ Edited: 13 Jun 2022 at 11:20 am by Owen_Stevens ](Ian - I just moved this reply here - it was on another thread by accident I think)
Thanks, Daphne. (Duh!)
Updated guidance has been put in the House of Commons library so have updated our resources page
Only item to disappear is gov.uk verify, and only new item is Health Adjustment Passport.
Lots of the others have more recent versions though, and they all have new urls - enjoy :)
Updated guidance has been put in the House of Commons library so have updated our resources page
Quite a few new additions this time -
- Apprenticeships
- Assessment period
- Cost of Living Payment
- Funding and permitted hours for skills training
- Jobs Growth Wales Plus and ReAct Plus
- Method of payment in Universal Credit
- Multiply (England) - numeracy courses
- Provision - Choosing a career and developing work search skills
- Provision - Developing employability skills and work experience
- Provision - Supporting claimants with health conditions
- Skills Bootcamps
- Supporting claimants with their basic employability skills
- Ukraine
And two taken away -
- Enhanced support offer
- National provision
All updated urls if you reference them from anywhere, even if it’s the same version…
Enjoy!
Updating rightsnet resources as we speak ;)
Now updated - https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/universal-credit-guidance
Items removed -
- Annual verification
- Traineeships
Items added -
- Approving payments on central payments system
- Claimant lists
- European Union Settlement Scheme
- Manage jobs and opportunities Vacancy Policy standards
- Manage jobs and opportunities Overview
- Move to UC transitional protection top-up payment
- Move to UC managed migration
- Move to UC transitional capital disregard
- Restart scheme
- Wales Skills to Employment pathway
- Welsh language communications
UC guidance updated again - and resource page to match - https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/resources/universal-credit-guidance
New items include -
- gainfully self-employed lead carer with youngest child aged 3-12 (increase in expected hours)
- help to claim
- in-work progression
- special customer records
- work experience
Removed items include
- labour market tools
- unacceptable customer behaviour