Universal Credit Guidance

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

Title	Version
Access to work	2.0
Additional amount for children	34.0
Administrative and Conditionality Earnings Thresholds	13.0
Advances - benefit transfer	17.0
Advances - budgeting advances	18.0
Advances - change of circumstances	17.0
Advances - new claim	22.0
All about Universal Credit	29.0
Applying the minimum income floor	21.0
Appointees, Personal Acting Bodies and Corporate Acting Bodies	13.0
Apprenticeships	2.0
Approving payments on the Central Payments System	1.0
Armed Forces	5.0
Armed Forces accommodation	2.0
Assessment period	1.0
Assisted digital overview	15.0
Availability for work	11.0
Backdating	4.0
Bed and breakfast and hotel accommodation	1.0
Benefit cap	23.0
Bereavement Support Payment	2.0
Biographical tests	10.0
Building the Claimant Commitment	13.0
Calculating rent as a monthly amount Social Rented Sector	4.0
Capital Disregards	26.0
Care leavers	18.0
Carers	24.0
Child in considerable distress	5.0
Child maintenance	5.0
Childcare costs	28.0
Claim closure	28.0
Claimant commitment not accepted	6.0
Claimant Commitment - Overview	11.0
Claimant h istory	2.0
Claimant lists	1.0
Claimant moves to a care home	2.0
Claimants at risk of eviction and repossession	2.0
Claimants who must pay housing costs without having a tenancy	3.0
Closing the gateway for claimants with severe disability premium	1.0
Cold Weather Payments	9.0
Commercial tenancies	1.0
Companies and Directors - Gainful self-employment	6.0
Complex needs overview	19.0
Conditionality requirements temporarily laid off	1.0
Consent and disclosure including when to share with third parties	27.0
Contrived tenancies	5.0
Cost of living payment	7.0
Council tax	3.0
DWP staff as claimants	9.0
DWP staff as landlords	3.0
Death and bereavement	17.0
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	9.0
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
Expected hours of work-related activity	7.0
Fail to attend	23.0
Failure to attend - good reason	9.0
Fair Start Scotland	7.0
Flexible Support Fund	30.0
Foodbanks	3.0
Foster carers	7.0
Fraud and error	9.0
Funding and permitted hours for skills training	6.0
Gainfully self-employed lead carers with youngest child aged 3-12 (increase in expected hours)	1.0
Going abroad	9.0
Habitual Residence Test	12.0
Health Adjustment Passport	2.0
Health conditions and disabilities - day 1 to day 29	15.0
Help to claim	1.0
Help with travel costs	1.0
Home visits	13.0
Homelessness and at risk of homelessness	15.0
Housing Cost Contributions non dependants	13.0
Identity verification	20.0
Immediate WCA referrals	11.0
In-work progression	6.0
Ineligible partner	9.0
Insolvency	5.0
Intensive Personalised Employment Support guidance	3.0
Intensive work search regime	29.0
Internships	3.0
Introduction to provision	4.0
Job goals and competing for vacancies	5.0
Jobs Growth Wales Plus and ReAct Plus	2.0
Joint tenancies	8.0
Journal messaging	3.0
Labour Market regimes and overrides	28.0
Learning Disabilities and Learning Difficulties	5.0
Light touch regime	9.0
List of universal credit trusted partners	22.0
MAPPA	3.0
Manage jobs and opportunities Vacancy Policy Standards	3.0
Manage jobs and opportunities Overview	4.0
Mandatory reconsiderations	13.0
Medical Evidence including Fit notes	18.0
Mental Health	4.0
Method of payment in universal credit	2.0
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking	5.0
Money guidance and APA	33.0
Mortgages	19.0
Move to UC managed migration	7.0
Move to UC transitional capital disregard	2.0
Move to UC transitional protection	3.0
Multiply England - numeracy courses	1.0
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage	6.0
New Enterprise Allowance	13.0
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	19.0
No work-related requirements regime	10.0
Non-digital relationships	4.0
Other benefits	26.0
Other work-related activities	3.0
Overpayments	11.0
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	17.0
Primary evidence Note - this item was obtained via a Freedom of Information response dated 28 November 2023	5.0
Private rented sector	23.0
Protecting claimants at risk	10.0
Provision: Choosing a career and developing work skills	5.0
Provision: Developing employability skills and work experience	5.0
Provision: Support claimants with health conditions	4.0
Real Time Information	12.0
Reasonable adjustments and alternative formats	5.0
Reclaims	11.0
Recoverable Hardship Payments	10.0
Redundancy prior to a claim	4.0
Refugees and Asylum Seekers	13.0
Registered or approved childcare	8.0
Relevant period for LCWRA	6.0
Removal of Requirement to accept a claimant commitment	12.0
Restart Scheme	1.0
Restart Scheme claimants with a health condition or disability	5.0
Sanctions	29.0
Sector-based work academies	10.0
Self-employed and gainfully self-employed	16.0
Self-employed earnings - permitted expenses	10.0
Self-employed earnings	13.0
Self-employment Start Up Period	13.0
Self-reported earnings	5.0
Serious violence and gang culture	3.0
Service charges	10.0
Severe conditions	3.0
Shared ownership	4.0
Skills bootcamps	3.0
Social rented sector	4.0
Speakers of other languages	5.0
Special customer records	1.0
Statutory sickness payment SSP	7.0
Students: eligibility, conditionality and student income	37.0
Suicide and self-harm DWP six point plan framework	10.0
Supported accommodation	7.0
Supporting citizens arriving from Afghanistan	5.0
Supporting claimants with their basic and employability skills needs and digital capabilities	3.0
Surplus, fluctuating and irregular earnings plus payment cycles	10.0
Suspending universal credit	3.0
Switching off requirements (easements) for LM regime interventions	9.0
Switching off work availability and work related activities	19.0
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	6.0
Treatment of capital	15.0
Treatment of earnings	10.0
Ukraine	5.0
Under 18s	18.0
Underpayments	13.0
Unearned income	19.0
UC monthly rates	21.0
Universal credit trusted partners	21.0
Voluntary work	8.0
Wales Skills to Employment pathway	5.0
Welsh language communications	1.0
Winter Fuel Payments	4.0
Work Allowance and taper rate - calculating earnings	12.0
Work capability assessment claimants in employment	15.0
Work capability assessment outcomes	21.0
Work capability assessments	24.0
Work experience	1.0
Work-focused interview regime	11.0
Work preparation activities	5.0
Work preparation regime	19.0
Work and Health Programme	26.0
Work-related activities and the Labour market regime	8.0
Work-related requirements and ongoing contact in the health journey	21.0
Work-related requirements for claimants with children	11.0
Work Search activities	11.0
Working enough regime	7.0
Youth offer	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 and 15 April 2024.

This page was last updated on: 25 April 2024.

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