Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in the context of the judicial review judgment handed down on 21 January 2022, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that claimants in receipt of enhanced disability payments will not be adversely affected by managed migration to universal credit.

The government is aware of what the court has said, however, the Secretary of State has sought permission to appeal the judgment and therefore we are unable to comment any further at this stage.

At the point of moving over to Universal Credit by managed migration, all claimants will be assessed for transitional protection and paid where appropriate. The vast majority will either be better off, or no worse off.

The aim of this temporary payment is to allow claimants time to adjust to the new benefit system.

Transitional Protection will gradually reduce as other elements of the Universal Credit award, other than the Childcare Costs Element, increase to align the claimant’s entitlement with those claimants who have made a claim to Universal Credit without the managed migration process, and are in the same circumstances.