What is this transitional protection thing?

Troy74
Troy74 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
edited November 22 in Universal Credit (UC)

I am seventy-four years of age with a sixty-five year old wife. I am getting state pension and the wife gets ESA. We have not received any letters to be migrated. If we voluntarily migrate without receiving invitation letters will we be covered by something which Ithink is called transitional protection? I was in a meeting at my old age club and I heard it said that the transitional protection would be best to go for and wait for the invitation letters for me and the wife. I phoned my friend of fifty years standing and he told me that there is no such thing as the protection I asked him about. If this is the case then we might as well go ahead and put our claims in and get it over with. Tired of waiting for the letters to come in the post so hope to get it all sorted out before Christmas. Just hope it is in time for Christmas as we only have a small bit of savings to pay the direct debits and get a turkey in and a few other nice things. The ten pounds each Christmas bonus is good as it helps pay for the dinners. Anybody know anything about this protection thing? Thanks, Troy.

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,770 Championing

    All migration letters should have been sent by the end of September.

    UC is replacing Income Related benefits:

    Housing Benefit

    Income Support

    income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)

    income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

    Is your wife's ESA instead perhaps New Style ESA, a Contributions Based benefit? Paid at £281.10 a fortnight?

    NS ESA nor your pension are being migrated to UC.

    Yes Transitional Protection is a thing.

    https://www.turn2us.org.uk/get-support/information-for-your-situation/universal-credit-uc-transitional-protection/what-is-universal-credit-uc-transitional-protection

  • Troy74
    Troy74 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    No letters received yet so will ring them up. Post here is terrible so what I expect of delays. Yes wife gets contribution esa.

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,770 Championing
    edited November 22

    Then unless you get Housing Benefit you won't be migrated to UC.

    State pension, CB ESA or NS ESA are not being migrated.

    Only the 4 benefits listed (plus Tax Credits but that migration completed some time ago) are changing to Universal Credit.

  • Troy74
    Troy74 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    We have our own small old house so no housing benefit. That's why we have not had a migration letter or letters. Thanks for letting me know about these matters.

  • Troy74
    Troy74 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    It’s a relief to know that me and the wife will not have to switch to universal credit because I have read of some horrible stories about migrating to it. I am new to this forum but spent some time reading about universal credit posts here. One case was really terrible with one guy and his wife losing out by migrating and with his pension and his wife’s benefit being taken into account with the calculation of universal credit leaving them a lot worse off. I was really afraid that we would be in their boat and be left with hardly any money to live on. We might not have much but at least we are going to be afloat! I am off to my Golden Age Club next week and will be able to tell the good news to my friends as they will be glad to hear my worry is over.

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