Universal Credit
British social security benefit
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Universal Credit is a United Kingdom based social security payment. It is means-tested and is replacing and combining six benefits, for working-age households with a low income: income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), and Income Support; Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Working Tax Credit (WTC); and Housing Benefit. An award of UC is made up of different elements, which become payable to the claimant if relevant criteria apply: a standard allowance for singles or couples, child elements and disabled child elements for children in the household, housing cost element, childcare costs element, as well as elements for being a carer or having an illness or disability and therefore having limited capability to work.
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£50m benefit fraud gang claimed Universal Credit on an 'industrial scale'Five members of a benefit fraud gang who falsely claimed £50m in Universal Credit have been brought down in the largest prosecution of its type in English legal history.Sky News - Published | |
Watch: Criminal convicted of £50m benefit fraud throws stack of £20 notes in the airOne of five Bulgarian nationals who falsely claimed £50m in Universal Credit filmed themselves throwing a stack of £20 notes in the air.Sky News - Published | |
Millions of children are in poverty and government must do more, 'worried' Gordon Brown tells Sky NewsGordon Brown has called on the government to carry out a "root and branch" review of Universal Credit amid growing poverty in the UK.Sky News - Published | |
National Insurance to be cut from 12% to 10% - as state pension and Universal Credit to riseNational Insurance is to be cut by two percentage points, the chancellor has announced in his autumn statement - as he pledged to "honour the triple lock in full" and increase Universal Credit.Sky News - Published | |
Families on Universal Credit to receive hundreds more pounds from end of June Families on benefits will be able to claim hundreds of pounds more in childcare payments from the end of June, the government has announced.Sky News - Published | |
Tory deputy chairman claims it is a 'myth' people on Universal Credit are in poverty Deputy chairman of the Conservative Party Lee Anderson has said it is a "myth" that people on Universal Credit are in poverty.Sky News - Published | |
Calls for emergency increase to Universal Credit as report finds some families £1,600 worse off The next prime minister is facing calls to immediately increase Universal Credit payments to stop vulnerable people spiralling further into poverty when fuel bills increase again this winter.Sky News - Published |
