New universal credit claimants 'will get no money before Christmas'

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. And there's the farce of losing the benefit in a month you get 5 weekly wages, and having to reapply

100,000 people on universal credit will not receive a payment at Christmas

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Official guidance states: “If you’re paid weekly by your employer, you will get either 4 or 5 payments of earnings within a Universal Credit assessment period.

“When you have 5 weekly earnings payments within an assessment period, your income may be too high to qualify for Universal Credit in that month.

“You can re-apply the following month as you should only get 4 wage payments in your assessment period then.”
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They will have to sign back onto universal credit online, which is not always easy for those without easy access to the internet over the festive period.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-credit-payments-christmas-new-year-estimated-100000-no-payment-a8062271.html