Universal Credit Guidance

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

Title	Version
Additional amount for children	14.0
Administrative and Conditionality Earnings Thresholds	5.0
Advances - benefit transfer	9.0
Advances - budgeting advances	8.0
Advances - change of circumstances	8.0
Advances - new claim	12.0
All about Universal Credit	19.0
Annual rent changes	3.0
Annual verification	5.0
Applying the minimum income floor	15.0
Appointees, Personal Acting Bodies and Corporate Acting Bodies	9.0
Armed Forces accommodation	2.0
Assisted digital overview	13.0
Availability for work	4.0
Backdating	4.0
Bed and breakfast	1.0
Benefit cap	17.0
Bereavement Support Payment	2.0
Building the Claimant Commitment	6.0
Calculating rent Social Rented Sector	4.0
Capital Disregards	17.0
Care leavers	15.0
Carers	10.0
Child in considerable distress	4.0
C hild maintenance	3.0
Childcare costs	18.0
Claim closure	14.0
Claimant history	1.0
Claimant Commitment - Overview	3.0
Claimant commitment not accepted	2.0
Claimant suicide or self-harm - DWP Six Point Plan Framework	1.0
Closing the gateway for claimants with severe disability premium	1.0
Cold Weather Payments	6.0
Companies and Directors - Gainful self-employment	3.0
Complex needs overview	16.0
Conditionality requirements temporarily laid off	1.0
Consent and disclosure	21.0
Contrived tenancies	5.0
Council tax	2.0
COVID changes to the WCA process	1.0
COVID confidentiality requirements	1.0
COVID Coronavirus emergency resource list	1.0
COVID Coronavirus guidance for universal credit	1.0
Death and bereavement	9.0
Deductions priority order	5.0
Deductions	9.0
Deprivation of capital	4.0
Discretionary housing payments	8.0
Domestic violence or abuse	15.0
Drug and Alcohol Dependency	6.0
DWP staff as claimants	8.0
DWP staff as landlords	3.0
Eligibility for universal credit	2.0
Employed claimants - fit for work support	8.0
Enhanced support offer	9.0
Evidence verification	6.0
Expected hours	3.0
Fail to attend	17.0
Failure to attend - good reason	6.0
Fair Start Scotland	4.0
Flexible Support Fund	6.0
Foodbanks	2.0
Foster carers	4.0
Fraud and error	8.0
Going abroad	5.0
GOV.UK Verify	3.0
Habitual Residence Test	9.0
Health conditions and disabilities - day 1 to day 29	12.0
Home visits	8.0
Homelessness and at risk of homelessness	10.0
Housing Cost Contributions non dependants	10.0
Housing Costs - Overview and Definitions	2.0
Housing Costs and 18 to 21 year olds	7.0
Intensive Activity Programme	5.0
Identity verification	10.0
Immediate WCA referrals	9.0
Ineligible partner	6.0
Insolvency	2.0
Intensive work search regime	18.0
Internships	2.0
Intensive Personalised Employment Support guidance	2.0
Job goals	1.0
Joint tenancies	8.0
Journal messaging	1.0
Labour Market regimes	13.0
Labour market tools	8.0
Learning Disabilities and Learning Difficulties	3.0
LHA rates in the PRS - under 35s and size criteria rules	4.0
Light touch regime	9.0
Mandatory reconsideration	6.0
MAPPA	3.0
Medical Evidence including Fit notes	6.0
Mental Health	3.0
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking	2.0
Money guidance and APA	25.0
Mortgages	7.0
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage	4.0
National provision	24.0
NEA	8.0
New claims	15.0
New style Benefits	8.0
New style ESA Dual claims	1.0
New style ESA & JSA conts based	14.0
New style ESA only	1.0
New style JSA Dual claims	1.0
New style JSA only	1.0
No work-related requirements regime	8.0
Non-dependants	9.0
Non-digital relationships	2.0
Other benefits	18.0
Other work-related activities	2.0
Overpayments	6.0
Passported benefits	8.0
Paternity leave and pay	2.0
Paying for two homes	3.0
Periods of sickness and self-employment	8.0
Prisoners	9.0
Private rented sector	15.0
Real Time Information	8.0
Reasonable adjustments	4.0
Reclaims	8.0
Recoverable Hardship Payments	8.0
Redundancy prior to claiming	2.0
Refugees and Asylum Seekers	10.0
Registered or approved childcare	7.0
Relevant period for LCWRA	1.0
Removal of Requirement to accept a claimant commitment	9.0
Removal of spare room subsidy	10.0
Safeguarding	2.0
Sanctions	16.0
Sector-based work academies	2.0
Self-employed earnings - permitted expenses	5.0
Self-employment Start Up Period	6.0
Self reported earnings	3.0
Self-employed and gainfully self-employed	7.0
Self-employed earnings	6.0
Service charges	6.0
Severe conditions	2.0
Shared ownership	4.0
Speakers of other languages	2.0
Specified accommodation	6.0
Statutory sickness payment SSP	7.0
Students: eligibility, conditionality and student income	18.0
Suicide and self-harm	3.0
Surplus, fluctuating and irregular earnings plus payment cycles	3.0
Switching off requirements (easements) for LM regime interventions	7.0
Switching off work availability and work related activities	15.0
Tax-free childcare scheme	3.0
Temporary accommodation	3.0
Terminal illness	17.0
Traineeships	1.0
Treated as having LCWRA	3.0
Treated as having LCW	1.0
Treatment of capital	10.0
Treatment of earnings	8.0
UC monthly rates	11.0
UC Trusted partners	18.0
Unacceptable customer behaviour	4.0
Under 18s	13.0
Underpayments	8.0
Use and occupation agreement	1.0
Voluntary work	5.0
WCA for claimants in employment	11.0
WCA outcomes	11.0
Winter Fuel Payments	4.0
Work Allowance and taper rate - calculating earnings	6.0
Work and Health Programme	16.0
Work capability assessments	16.0
Work-focused interview regime	7.0
Work preparation activities	3.0
Work preparation regime	14.0
Work Programme	6.0
Work-related activities and the Labour market regime	6.0
Work-related requirements and ongoing contact in the health journey	16.0
Work Search activities	6.0
Working enough regime	7.0
Work-related requirements for claimants with children	5.0
Youth obligation Support Programme	14.0

Please note: 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, and again on 29 October 2020

The links on this page are to copies of the guidance on the Parliament website, and are therefore likely not to be routinely updated. If you become aware of an updated version of any of the documents, do let us know and we'll update this page.

Last updated: 4 November 2020.