Universal Credit Act 2025 - Latest Updates

I can find anything about the severe disability criteria. The only information on the Gov website said it was withdrawn in May 2025.

hi thanks, so is the severe conditions criteria still the same if someone was being assessed in say May 2026. It’s very confusing. I have 2 adult children who are autistic as well as other conditions. So if they were both to be reassessed on UC I’m not sure they would stay in LCWRA group going by the criteria stated in the above link.

So it says that UC combined standard allowance and LCWRA will rise annually with inflation but people who were migrated from a legacy benefit to uc receiving TP won't actually benefit from any increases as they did with their legacy benefit because any increase will be deducted pound for pound from the TP part of their UC which will leave people who have no other way of adding to their income and are totally reliant on cost of living benefit increases to cover cost of living increases in rent, utilities, food etc, plus the increase in council tax charges because councils have been given free reign to interpret the TP amount as ' extra income' will be significantly worse off until their TP has has eroded to zero, effectively 'freezing' the amount of benefit received at the rate you were getting at the point of migration. So for the next few years how are people in this position meant to cover higher rent payments, bills, basically everything and the big increase in their council tax charges 🤷

If you're already on the system and claiming LCWRA, does this mean you're safe and will get the higher rate?

It's shocking what the government are doing. Creating a two tier benefit will put new claimants in severe hardship and cause resentment for those who are already on the system.

My concern is that universal credit will be stopped for some reason, and will force disabled people to have to reapply from scratch. In this way, will they lose their current LCWRA , and therefore only get the halved new rate? Plus, they will lose their TP from legacy benefits? This could result in a loss of £600 a month for many disabled people, who are unable to work and make up the difference.

My point is when you were better off by a few hundred pounds a month as opposed to someone in similar situation but on uc only you were happy until you use up your tp you will still be better off the same will happen in the future with the new lcwra rules

for the record i am not on and have never been on esa i believe when people were transferred from legacy benefits with transitional protection it would erode as uc caught up as stated on the gov website it is there in black and white for all to see a quick search also says that a high percentage did not understand or read it

I agree everything they done is shocking will certainly make alot of savings its like we have to be so grateful to recieve benefits which i am and all the hoops we have to jump through its a mad world people at the top have conditioned society to think scraps are acceptable and look at joe bloggs buying organic apples thats not right is it ??? Or they have a holiday once in a blue moon whilst they have homes in mayfair drink the cleanest water food jet around the world whilst we have crumbling services highstreets shut down nhs on its knees thier even paying 50 million to block sun !! I could go on and on we should be uniting not accepting our rights being eroded they have ruined most things this country stood for and we argue about what we rightly had before been taken away i dont think we will ever win the fight for a better futrue for the next generation people to divided the psychological warfare from the higest elites have made us believe its normal to have next to noting and be taxed on everything if you really look 100 years ago people wasnt taxed we are forced to live a life by thier rules none of us our free quick change of subject farage says he will stop people wprking from home wasnt that one of labours driving force for getting people back into the work place also his rich chums losing rents on thier rental properties