Found: be available to students depending on their personal circumstances, for example if they have a disability
Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he is taking steps to ensure that single claimants with long-term disabilities receive the same benefits under Universal Credit as under the legacy system.
Answered by Jo Churchill
Universal Credit provides more generous support for disabled people than it does for people in similar circumstances who are not disabled.
Based on the outcome of a work capability assessment, it may be decided that a claimant has limited capability for work and work-related activity, and may be awarded an additional amount of benefit, currently £416.19 per calendar month from (2024/25 rates).
Additionally, where it is decided that claimants have limited capability for work or limited capability for work and work-related activity, they are eligible for a work allowance.
The Government has given a commitment that no eligible claimants who are invited to move to Universal Credit (UC), from legacy benefits, by the Department for Work and Pensions, and whose circumstances remain the same, will have a lower entitlement to UC than they had entitlement to their legacy benefits at the point of moving. Where necessary, eligible claimants will be awarded Transitional Protection (TP) in the form of a Transitional Element (TE) to ensure this commitment is met.
Severe disability premium (SDP) transitional payments are available to claimants who became entitled to Universal Credit (UC) within a month of being entitled to severe disability premium (SDP) within a legacy benefit. In a case where the legacy benefit had terminated within that month the claimant must have continued to satisfy the eligibility conditions for SDP up to and including the first day of their UC award. The relevant legacy benefits are:
New regulations came into force on 14th February 2024 and provide newly eligible claimants additional transitional protection where they are entitled to the transitional SDP element.
The claimants must also have been previously entitled to other disability premia in the month preceding their claim to UC, and continue to satisfy the eligibility conditions up to and including the first day of their UC award, to one or more of the following:
Mentions:
1: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) The pupil premium is funding to support the educational outcomes of disadvantaged pupils, and schools - Speech Link
2: Ian Sollom (LD - St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire) —(Ian Sollom.)This new clause instigates a review of school governance in light of the severe shortage - Speech Link
3: None ‘looked after child’ has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989;‘pupil premium grant’ means the - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) New clause 61 would extend pupil premium plus to all children in kinship care, based on the definition - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) There are no plans to change the pupil premium eligibility at present. - Speech Link
Apr. 04 2011
Source Page: Two year review of the local housing allowance. 184 p.Found: Premium or Severe Disability Premium, or those passported to full Housing Benefit by an award of Employment
Mentions:
1: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) number of children with English as a second language, and a third of its pupils qualify for pupil premium - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) He is only seven years old, but has been experiencing severe mental health distress while awaiting a - Speech Link
3: Ian Sollom (LD - St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire) Although we understand that regional variation has its place—indeed, we championed pupil premium funding - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) That funding is to support the ongoing costs of special educational needs and disability provision.To - Speech Link
5: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) describes the additional funding but, as I have explained, many parents and children are suffering with severe - Speech Link
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Closing the gateway for claimants with Severe Disability Premium Background Closing the gateway
Written Evidence Apr. 02 2025
Inquiry: Pensioner poverty – challenges and mitigationsFound: Reduction as well as providing advice about the pensioners about their possible entitlement to disability
Laid - 10 Sep 2024 In Force 21 Oct 2024
The Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/166) introduce arrangements for the payment of disability assistance in the form of pension age disability payment. Pension age disability payment replaces attendance allowance in Scotland.
Found: pensioner premium or disability premium has been applicable to the claimant.”; (e)in paragraph 13— (
Mentions:
1: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) My colleagues the Minister for Social Security and Disability, my right hon. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Long Bailey (Ind - Salford) disability premium paid with their benefits”or“an extra amount for severe disability paid with Pension - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Maria lived with severe cerebral palsy and needed round-the-clock care. - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) The consequences for her family have been severe. - Speech Link
5: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) The Minister for Social Security and Disability, my right hon. - Speech Link
6: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) The Minister for Social Security and Disability, my right hon. - Speech Link
7: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) The Minister for Social Security and Disability, my right hon. - Speech Link
Oct. 23 2024
Source Page: Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our StrategyFound: Barriers to entering work and increasing hours and pay include caring responsibilities10, disability