There are roughly two million Brits still claiming any one of six legacy benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), all of whom are set to get a letter as part of the "manage migration" to the one-for-all Universal Credit (UC) system.
Due to a cost-saving measure, the deadline to make this move has been brought forward to the end of 2025, when all ;egacy claimants will have three months to migrate or lose their benefits entirely.
As part of the sped-up rollout of UC following the pandemic, over a million people have been sent a "migration notice" by the DWP telling them they have three months to apply, or their benefit payments will stop.
The six affected legacy benefits are: working tax credit, child tax credit, housing benefit, income support, jobseeker's allowance and income-related employment and support allowance.
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