A MAJOR change to Universal Credit, set to take effect in just a few days, will grant claimants a £420 increase in payments.

A COMPLEX Universal Credit savings rule is seeing 2million miss out on benefit cash. A new report has found an increasing ...

You have to pay for your childcare costs yourself. Then you report them to Universal Credit, and Universal Credit pays some ...

Confirmed by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Autumn Budget last year, the maximum deductions from the standard ...

The DWP has clarified how Universal Credit eligibility works after a question from MP on whether Lifetime ISAs should be ...

He further explained how the DWP gets information about a person's income to help calculate their benefits entitlement: ...

A couple said they had come into money which put them over the threshold for the benefit, and as a result they wanted to ...

These details are crucial for the department to calculate the correct level of support and prevent delays or overpayments.

"RTI enables a customer's Universal Credit award to be automatically adjusted to reflect their fluctuating earnings, which ...

The DWP and other third parties can deduct 25% of someone's Universal Credit standard allowance payment to recover any debts someone may have. But this is set to change ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has outlined the eligibility criteria for Universal Credit, detailing what counts ...

Universal Credit claimants are being reminded to "report themselves" and "provide evidence" to the Department for Work and ...