Universal Credit Act 2025 - Latest Updates (05.03.26)

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  • scaredandconfused
    scaredandconfused Community Member Posts: 3 Connected

    Hi out there, does anyone know if there is a bill that has gone through the house of lords in which the DWP can take up to 40% of funds available if they suspect fraud with no evidence? At any given time

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 3,815 Online Community Team

    @scaredandconfused I haven't heard of this. Do you know where you read this?

  • OnlineNerd1997
    OnlineNerd1997 Community Member Posts: 3 Listener

    Thanks for the detailed breakdown, this looks like a clear shift towards incentivising work while still protecting the most vulnerable claimants. The contrast between rising standard allowance and frozen LCWRA for new claimants will be interesting to see in real impact over the next few years.

  • MyHappy256
    MyHappy256 Community Member Posts: 150 Empowering

    I read somewhere that if you are reapplying for PIP it can affect your LCWRA payment as well, is that true?

  • worried33
    worried33 Community Member Posts: 1,054 Championing

    I expect a gap, such as being found LCW, then later found LCWRA would be the lower rate? However I found a upper tribunal decision which found that if the gap is caused by means testing closing the UC claim, then the DWP cant treat it as a new claim, when they qualify for UC again, unless there is a new WCA that is different to the older LCWRA decision.

  • scaredandconfused
    scaredandconfused Community Member Posts: 3 Connected

    Rachel_Scope

    I saw it on this person's YouTube channel Alison Mcrobbie, she sounds like a scaremonger grifter , I guess you need to be to gain followers, but it unsettled me.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,764 Online Community Team

    Unfortunately that's often the case @scaredandconfused. It's wrong really, as it causes so much unrest for people.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,391 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1116840#Comment_1116840

    I've never heard of her tbh although I don't go on YT much, only for music so that's probably why ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜…. She does sound horrid though with her content and an utter bore ๐Ÿซ ๐Ÿ˜Š.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,391 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1117007#Comment_1117007

    I'll do them for you then... ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ˜ด tbh though I think these just mean sleep ๐Ÿซ ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜….

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,169 Championing
    edited April 13

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lX2rqo9q0
  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 2,211 Connected

    Too many right whingers (deliberate typo, yeh) who hate benefit claimants in general, particularly the disabled! Some of the stuff I've had said to me both in person and online is literally unrepeatable in civilised conversation.

  • MegaAlone
    MegaAlone Community Member Posts: 22 Connected

    thank you for sharing this. DWP changed me to meetings twice a week and put me through to apply for this and didn't know what it was but posted on 20th March. It's big drop, good that they aren't applying the change to old claimants. That would be like suddenly pulling the rug from underneath their feet. It would impact in a big way.

  • snuggles65
    snuggles65 Community Member Posts: 157 Empowering

    Hi

    I know who you are on about. She was always coming up on my you tube and I would listen to her to the point she terrified me so I blocked her. I now know longer see her videos. I've blocked quite a few on YouTube to the point I will not venture on to YouTube. A lot of them a scaremongering and it's not nice. I don't go on tiktok either that was just as bad.

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