Lcwra holiday time

pereto
pereto Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor
edited July 12 in Universal Credit (UC)

I know you can have 1 month aborad, and i keep seeing people say that the leaving and coming back days dont count but i cant find anywhere on an official site that says that. all i can find is the 1 month. Id like to know as then i can have an extra 2 days away each time

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  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 8,935 Online Community Team
    edited July 6

    Hi @pereto, I wasn't able to find any clear official guidance on this either unfortunately.

    This is the only guidance I found that mentions a rule starting the day after the person leaves the UK, but the sentence is a little hard to interpret and may not relate to your particular circumstance: 075._Going_Abroad-Guidance_V13.0.pdf

    The sentence is on page two about halfway down.

    When it comes down to it, as the guidance isn't clear, it is probably best to keep your holiday within the one month limit including your travel days just to be on the safe side. You could also try asking on your journal to see if they can give you a clearer answer.

    Are you planning to travel anywhere nice?

  • Stellar
    Stellar Community Member Posts: 539 Trailblazing

    The one calendar month includes outbound and inbound travel days. If they didn't count, people would catch 4:00AM flights and return at 11:55PM, and still claim those as UK days, even though they were out of the UK.

    The only way you'll get away with inbound and outbound travel days is by not declaring them, which does break UC rules. But in practise, you're very likely to get away with booking holidays off outside GB so long as you have no appointments.

  • pereto
    pereto Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1137044#Comment_1137044

    ThanThankyou Rosie that does make sense, as if your only counted as abroad the day after you left the uk for one purpose then they have to apply that for all purposes. And tbis time its Romania, moldova, and the breakaway region of Pridnestrovie. Last one was Germany dusseldorf,essen cologne for a month. This is the one of the best videos thats shows Pridnestrovie

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Psj2StH03GY&t=26s&pp=ygUddGhlIGNvdW50cnkgdGhhdCBkb2VzbnQgZXhpc3Q%3D

  • pereto
    pereto Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor

    Thanks Stelar as well, Rosies linknis handy read if you can see it. But yes I def would ne er get a flight that early i always fly in the afternoon to take advantage of a few hours in the lounge/s. I dont have any appointments but im not sure what you mean by nit declaring those days? I never declare holidays ive always just gone lol

  • pereto
    pereto Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor

    I forgot to say i ld never send them a journal message as i dont message them about anythinf lol. I always think if i message and ask something anything they will look on the system and think oh not seen him for a while etc lets suggest this or that or retest lol. I try have nothing to do with them at all lol.

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