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	17.0
Administrative and Conditionality Earnings Thresholds	7.0
Advances - benefit transfer	11.0
Advances - budgeting advances	10.0
Advances - change of circumstances	9.0
Advances - new claim	15.0
Afghan locally employed staff	1.0
All about Universal Credit	21.0
Annual verification	5.0
Applying the minimum income floor	16.0
Appointees, Personal Acting Bodies and Corporate Acting Bodies	10.0
Armed Forces	2.0
Armed Forces accommodation	2.0
Assisted digital overview	14.0
Availability for work	6.0
Backdating	4.0
Bed and breakfast and hotel accommodation	1.0
Benefit cap	20.0
Bereavement Support Payment	2.0
Building the Claimant Commitment	6.0
Calculating rent as a monthly amount Social Rented Sector	4.0
Capital Disregards	17.0
Care leavers	17.0
Carers	14.0
Child in considerable distress	4.0
Child maintenance	4.0
Childcare costs	21.0
Claim closure	17.0
Claimant commitment not accepted	3.0
Claimant Commitment - Overview	6.0
Claimant h istory	1.0
Claimant moves to a care home	1.0
Claimant suicide or self-harm - DWP Six Point Plan Framework	1.0
Claimants at risk of eviction	1.0
Claimants served in Armed Forces	1.0
Claimants who must pay housing costs without having a tenancy	2.0
Closing the gateway for claimants with severe disability premium	1.0
Cold Weather Payments	6.0
Commercial tenancies	1.0
Companies and Directors - Gainful self-employment	3.0
Complex needs overview	17.0
Conditionality requirements temporarily laid off	1.0
Consent and disclosure including when to share with third parties	24.0
Contrived tenancies	5.0
Council tax	3.0
DWP staff as claimants	8.0
DWP staff as landlords	3.0
Death and bereavement	12.0
Deductions priority order	7.0
Deductions	12.0
Deprivation of capital	4.0
Discretionary housing payments	9.0
Domestic violence or abuse	20.0
Drug and Alcohol Dependency	7.0
Eligibility for housing support	3.0
Eligibility for universal credit	2.0
Employed claimants - fit for work support	8.0
Enhanced support offer	9.0
Evidence verification	7.0
Expected hours	5.0
Fail to attend	17.0
Failure to attend - good reason	6.0
Fair Start Scotland	7.0
Flexible Support Fund	14.0
Foodbanks	2.0
Foster carers	4.0
Fraud and error	8.0
Going abroad	7.0
GOV.UK Verify	3.0
Habitual Residence Test	9.0
Health conditions and disabilities - day 1 to day 29	12.0
Help with travel costs	1.0
Home visits	11.0
Homelessness and at risk of homelessness	10.0
Housing Cost Contributions non dependants	12.0
Identity verification	11.0
Immediate WCA referrals	9.0
Ineligible partner	6.0
Insolvency	3.0
Intensive Personalised Employment Support guidance	2.0
Intensive work search regime	19.0
Internships	3.0
Job goals	2.0
Joint tenancies	8.0
Journal messaging	1.0
Kickstart Scheme	6.0
Labour Market regimes	15.0
Labour market tools	8.0
Learning Disabilities and Learning Difficulties	3.0
Light touch regime	9.0
List of universal credit trusted partners	18.0
Mandatory reconsideration	8.0
MAPPA	3.0
Medical Evidence including Fit notes	7.0
Mental Health	4.0
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking	4.0
Money guidance and APA	29.0
Mortgages	10.0
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage	6.0
National provision	27.0
NEA	9.0
New claims	15.0
New style ESA Dual claims	2.0
New style ESA & JSA conts based	14.0
New style ESA only	1.0
New style JSA Dual claims	2.0
New style JSA only	1.0
No work-related requirements regime	8.0
Non-digital relationships	2.0
Other benefits	22.0
Other work-related activities	2.0
Overpayments	9.0
Passported benefits	9.0
Paternity leave and pay	2.0
Paying for two homes	5.0
Payment overview	1.0
Periods of sickness and self-employment	8.0
Prisoners	12.0
Private rented sector	20.0
Protecting claimants at risk	4.0
Real Time Information	11.0
Reasonable adjustments	4.0
Reclaims	8.0
Recoverable Hardship Payments	9.0
Redundancy prior to claiming	3.0
Refugees and Asylum Seekers	11.0
Registered or approved childcare	7.0
Relevant period for LCWRA	2.0
Removal of Requirement to accept a claimant commitment	9.0
Removal of spare room subsidy	10.0
Restart Scheme - Health Journey	1.0
Sanctions	20.0
Sector-based work academies	4.0
Self-employed and gainfully self-employed	8.0
Self-employed earnings - permitted expenses	5.0
Self-employed earnings	7.0
Self-employment Start Up Period	6.0
Self-reported earnings	4.0
Serious violence and gang culture	1.0
Service charges	10.0
Severe conditions	2.0
Shared ownership	4.0
Social rented sector	1.0
Speakers of other languages	2.0
Statutory sickness payment SSP	7.0
Students: eligibility, conditionality and student income	23.0
Suicide and self-harm	6.0
Supported accommodation	7.0
Surplus, fluctuating and irregular earnings plus payment cycles	9.0
Switching off requirements (easements) for LM regime interventions	7.0
Switching off work availability and work related activities	15.0
Tax-free childcare scheme	6.0
Temporary accommodation	4.0
Terminal illness	17.0
The size criteria for renters	3.0
Traineeships	2.0
Treated as having LCWRA	3.0
Treated as having LCW	1.0
Treatment of capital	11.0
Treatment of earnings	8.0
UC monthly rates	13.0
UC Trusted partners	21.0
Unacceptable customer behaviour	4.0
Under 18s	13.0
Underpayments	9.0
Unearned income	13.0
Voluntary work	7.0
Winter Fuel Payments	4.0
Work Allowance and taper rate - calculating earnings	8.0
Work capability assessment claimants in employment	11.0
Work capability assessment outcomes	13.0
Work capability assessments	17.0
Work-focused interview regime	7.0
Work preparation activities	4.0
Work preparation regime	14.0
Work and Health Programme	16.0
Work-related activities and the Labour market regime	6.0
Work-related requirements and ongoing contact in the health journey	18.0
Work-related requirements for claimants with children	5.0
Work Search activities	6.0
Working enough regime	7.0
Youth offer	1.0

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; and 28 October 2021.

This page was last updated on: 9 November 2021.

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