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Transitional Protection

What do I say or do, to stop me transfer to UC.
Am website I can print or information I can get to hand to take into Coventry Job centre.
We are live 11th July, and they may not take note to me about Transitional Protection.
Which I understand kicks in only next year.
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When your postcode moves to Universal Credit you can no longer make a new claim for tax credits, Housing Benefit or out-of-work benefits like Income Support.
If you are making a new claim for benefits, or are already claiming benefits and have a change in your circumstances, you may have to claim Universal Credit at some point before December 2018 as the roll out for new claims will have covered the whole of the UK.
This date does not apply to two groups of people:
Once the full roll out for new claims is complete,
Are you already claiming benefits?
Once the full roll out for new claims is complete, existing benefits and tax credits claimants who do not have a change of circumstance (see our What changes might trigger a move to Universal Credit guide) will not be asked to claim Universal Credit until July 2019 at the earliest. The government expects to finish moving existing benefit and tax credit claimants onto Universal Credit by March 2023.
here is the link if you would like to check the information for yourself:-
https://www.entitledto.co.uk/help/Universal-Credit-Pilot
I hope this is helpful and allays some of your fears.
In the longer term there are numerous ways to postpone a move to UC but it starts with knowing your circumstances in full, which you may not want to disclose on a forum.
This, as you may gather, is a complete mess.
This is so difficult, so many rules to consider at once.
Contributory ESA is paid indefinitely for whatever period you are in the support group. And you stay in the support group until you are re-assessed - with a good chance of staying in it after that re-assessment.
You can have contributory ESA topped up with income-related ESA.
If you've lost your SDP because you've lost your PIP, but still have your EDP in place, then you still have an award of income-related ESA. If you win your appeal, there won't be a break in your ESA claim, and you will be paid arrears. Therefore no need to migrate onto UC and no eventual loss of premiums at the moment.
Please keep us updated. There are more decisions for you to make, should you not win the appeal.
I hope that's how it works out anyway.
Gill_Scope