Universal Credit Guidance

This page contains universal credit guidance placed by the government in the House of Commons library deposited papers archive.

Title	Version (where noted)
Access to work	2.0
Additional amount for children	36.0
Advances - benefit transfer	18.0
Advances - budgeting advances	20.0
Advances - change of circumstances	18.0
Advances - new claim	23.0
All about Universal Credit	29.0
Applying the minimum income floor	23.0
Appointees, Personal Acting Bodies and Corporate Acting Bodies	14.0
Apprenticeships	3.0
Approving payments on the Central Payments System	1.0
Armed Forces	5.0
Armed Forces accommodation	3.0
Assessment period	2.0
Assisted digital overview	15.0
Backdating	4.0
Benefit cap	23.0
Bereavement Support Payment	2.0
Biographical tests	11.0
Building the Claimant Commitment	14.0
Capital Disregards	27.0
Care leavers	19.0
Carers	25.0
Child in considerable distress	6.0
Child maintenance	5.0
Childcare costs	30.0
Claim closure	32.0
Claimant commitment not accepted	7.0
Claimant Commitment - Overview	13.0
Claimant commitment - removal of requirement to accept	13.0
Claimants with health conditions	5.0
Claimant history	2.0
Claimant lists	1.0
Claimant loses entitlement to legacy benefits before they claim UC
Claimant moves to a care home	2.0
Claimants at risk of eviction and repossession
Claimants who must pay housing costs without having a tenancy	3.0
Cold Weather Payments	9.0
Commercial tenancies	1.0
Complex needs overview	20.0
Conditionality earnings threshold	16.0
Conditionality requirements temporarily laid off
Consent and disclosure including when to share with third parties
Contrived tenancies	5.0
Cost of living payment	10.0
Council tax	3.0
DWP staff as claimants	10.0
DWP staff as landlords	3.0
DWP youth offer	8.0
Death and bereavement	18.0
Deductions priority order	8.0
Deductions	17.0
Deprivation of capital	4.0
Discretionary housing payments	9.0
Domestic abuse	26.0
Drug and Alcohol Dependency	13.0
Eligibility for housing support	3.0
Eligibility for universal credit	4.0
Employed claimants fit for work support	8.0
European Union Settlement Scheme	2.0
Evidence verification	8.0
Fail to attend	24.0
Failure to attend - good reason	9.0
Fair Start Scotland	11.0
Flexible Support Fund	31.0
Foodbanks	4.0
Foster carers	7.0
Fraud and error	10.0
Funding and permitted hours for skills training
Gainful self-employment	7.0
Gainfully self-employed lead carers with youngest child aged 3-12 (increase in expected hours)
Going abroad	11.0
Group sessions	3.0
Habitual Residence Test	14.0
Health Adjustment Passport	2.0
Health conditions and disabilities - day 1 to day 29
Help to claim	1.0
Help with travel costs	1.0
Home visits	14.0
Homelessness and at risk of homelessness
Hotel accommodation	1.0
Hours of work-related activity	12.0
Housing Cost Contributions non dependants
Identity verification	20.0
Immediate WCA referrals	11.0
In-work progression	7.0
Ineligible partner	9.0
Insolvency	6.0
Intensive Personalised Employment Support guidance
Intensive work search regime	30.0
Internships	3.0
Introduction to provision	4.0
Job goals and competing for vacancies	5.0
Jobs Growth Wales Plus and ReAct Plus	3.0
Joint tenancies	8.0
Journal messaging	3.0
Labour Market regimes and overrides	29.0
Learning disabilities or learning difficulties	6.0
Light touch regime	10.0
List of universal credit trusted partners	22.0
Manage jobs and opportunities Vacancy Policy Standards
Manage jobs and opportunities Overview
Mandatory reconsiderations	13.0
Medical Evidence including Fit notes
Mental Health	5.0
Method of payment in universal credit
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
Money guidance and APA
Mortgages	19.0
Move to UC managed migration	9.0
Move to UC transitional capital disregard
Move to UC transitional protection
Move to UC claimant queries
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements	3.0
Multiply England - numeracy courses	3.0
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage
New style benefits	11.0
New style ESA and UC Dual claims	5.0
New style ESA only	6.0
New style JSA and UC Dual claims	3.0
New style JSA only	4.0
New claims	20.0
No work-related requirements regime	10.0
Non-digital relationships	5.0
Other benefits	26.0
Other work-related activities	3.0
Overpayments	12.0
Passported benefits	12.0
Paternity leave and pay	2.0
Paying for two homes	6.0
Periods of sickness and self-employment	8.0
Prisoners	21.0
Primary evidence Note - this item was obtained via a Freedom of Information response dated 28 November 2023	5.0
Private rented sector	26.0
Protecting claimants at risk	11.0
Provision: Choosing a career and developing work skills
Provision: Developing employability skills and work experience
Real Time Information	12.0
Reasonable adjustments and alternative formats
Recoverable Hardship Payments	11.0
Redundancy prior to a claim	4.0
Refugees and Asylum Seekers	14.0
Registered or approved childcare	9.0
Relevant period for LCWRA	9.0
Removal of Requirement to accept a claimant commitment	12.0
Rent free weeks in social rented sector	4.0
Restart Scheme	8.0
Restart Scheme claimants with a health condition or disability
Sanctions	30.0
Sector-based work academies
Self-employed and gainfully self-employed	17.0
Self-employed earnings - permitted expenses
Self-employed earnings	15.0
Self-employment Start Up Period	14.0
Self-reported earnings	5.0
Serious violence and gang culture
Service charges	10.0
Severe conditions	3.0
Severe disability premium transitional protection overview
Shared ownership	4.0
Skills bootcamps	5.0
Social rented sector	5.0
Speakers of other languages	5.0
Special customer records	1.0
State Pension age claimants: guidance	2.0
Students: eligibility, conditionality and student income
Suicide and self-harm DWP six point plan framework
Supported accommodation	7.0
Supporting citizens arriving from Afghanistan	5.0
Supporting claimants with their basic and employability skills needs and digital capabilities
Surplus, fluctuating and irregular earnings plus payment cycles
Suspending universal credit	4.0
Switching off requirements (easements) for LM regime interventions
Switching off work availability and work related activities
Tax-free childcare scheme	8.0
Temporary accommodation	4.0
Terminal illness	23.0
The size criteria for renters	7.0
Treated as having LCW	2.0
Treated as having LCWRA and day 1 WCA referrals
Treatment of capital	16.0
Treatment of earnings	10.0
Ukraine	6.0
Under 18s	18.0
Underpayments	13.0
Unearned income	20.0
Universal credit and legacy benefits	1.0
Universal credit claim reviews
Universal credit health offer	5.0
UC monthly rates	24.0
Universal credit trusted partners	21.0
Voluntary work	10.0
Wales Skills to Employment pathway	5.0
Welsh language communications	1.0
Winter Fuel Payments	4.0
Work Allowance and taper rate - calculating earnings
Work capability assessment claimants in employment	16.0
Work capability assessment outcomes	21.0
Work capability assessments	25.0
Work coach time health	1.0
Work-focused interview regime	11.0
Work preparation activities	6.0
Work preparation regime	21.0
Work and Health Programme
Work-related activities and the Labour market regime
Work-related requirements and ongoing contact in the health journey
Work-related requirements for claimants with children
Work Search activities	12.0
Working enough regime	7.0

Please note: The links on this page are to copies of the guidance on the Parliament website. The guidance was originally placed in the Commons Library in October 2016 at the request of the then Work and Pensions Minister Lord Freud. Updated versions were placed in the Library on 14 September 2017; 18 July 2018; 28 March 2019; 21 October 2019; 29 October 2020; 15 April 2021; 28 October 2021; 26 April 2022; 18 October 2022, 20 April 2023, 11 October 2023, 15 April 2024 and 16 October 2024.

This page was last updated on: 24 October 2024.

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