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WTC to UC - disability element scrubbed?

Hi all
I’m looking some help or advice planning for the future. In the next 3 years or so I’ll migrate to UC from working tax credits. I recently completed a calculator and it shows that I wouldn’t be entitled to any UC. So in effect the disability element has been done away with. I did find some info saying that there would be a transitional allowance - meaning I’ll get paid the same so as not to lose out but that wouldn’t even be kept up indefinitely and would be reduced gradually.
I currently work 30 hours per week. I get high rate PIP so I get the disability element of working tax credits. It was getting the high rate of PIP that enabled me to reduce my hours in work before I was sacked for sickness absence inefficiency as I couldn’t cope with the work hours. So this change is worrying and I can’t find much info about it so I think it’s sneakily gone under the radar. I even messed about with the calculator and even reducing my hours and therefore wages still didn’t qualify me at all for UC.
Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
I’m looking some help or advice planning for the future. In the next 3 years or so I’ll migrate to UC from working tax credits. I recently completed a calculator and it shows that I wouldn’t be entitled to any UC. So in effect the disability element has been done away with. I did find some info saying that there would be a transitional allowance - meaning I’ll get paid the same so as not to lose out but that wouldn’t even be kept up indefinitely and would be reduced gradually.
I currently work 30 hours per week. I get high rate PIP so I get the disability element of working tax credits. It was getting the high rate of PIP that enabled me to reduce my hours in work before I was sacked for sickness absence inefficiency as I couldn’t cope with the work hours. So this change is worrying and I can’t find much info about it so I think it’s sneakily gone under the radar. I even messed about with the calculator and even reducing my hours and therefore wages still didn’t qualify me at all for UC.
Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
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I agree that it's good to be clear that people on the disability element of tax credits rather than the severe disability element will get transitional protection when they move onto universal credit under "managed migration"; but it's also clear that the policy intention is that this will gradually diminish. It's like mark-time pay when your employer pays it - its value deceases each year. It isn't good news. We have to hope for adjustments to this new system due to the pressure that's there to amend the draft legislation.
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