Sentences with phrase «under universal credit»

One million children living in poverty in England will miss out on free school meals under universal credit proposals, new findings from The Children's Society reveal today.

«The Kinship Care Alliance warmly welcomes the announcement by Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform, of a year's exemption from conditionality under Universal Credit for grandparents, older siblings, aunts and uncles and other relatives and friends (kinship) carers who are taking on the responsibility for bringing up children who are unable to live with their parents.

We estimate that around 160,000 children, 13 per cent of those entitled under the legacy system, will lose entitlement under a universal credit system

Their ongoing welfare series includes reports on rights and responsibilities in the welfare system, personalising employment support, improving conditionality, improving incentives for Jobcentre Plus and how to treat in - work claimants subject to conditionality under universal credit.

«Under Universal Credit more people will receive support for childcare than they do now.

It provides guidance on free school meal eligibility and the introduction of transitional protection arrangements under Universal Credit for those already receiving free school meals.

The number of families affected by the 73p withdrawal rate will decline by two - thirds under universal credit from 2.1 million to 700,000, it added.

Campaigners for those on low incomes are calling for an urgent rethink on how small businesses and the self - employed will be dealt with under universal credit.

Moving in and out of entitlement should not happen under universal credit which is replacing tax credits, but it is a much less generous and more burdensome regime in which zero - hours contracts do not sit easily.»

Existing claimants in homes where someone of working age also lives have been spared the welfare cut, but new claimants under the Universal Credit scheme will face deductions.

Under the Universal Credit plans, six key means - tested benefits - jobseeker's allowance, employment support allowance, housing benefit, working tax credit, income support and child tax credit - are to be combined into a single payment which ministers say will ensure that claimants are always better off in work and also reduce fraud.

Assessment of impact of the new proposed eligibility criteria for free school meals and EYPP under Universal Credit.

The government will proceed with its plans to change the threshold for free school meals eligibility under universal credit, children's minister Nadhim Zahawi has announced.

However, support for childcare costs through the childcare element of Working Tax Credits is being reduced from April 2011, and as yet there are no details on whether and how this support will be replaced under the Universal Credit.

Around 210,000 children who would not have qualified for free school meals under the former system will gain entitlement under universal credits, while 160,000 will now be ineligible.

However, the government is planning to introduce means testing for free school meals under universal credit, which The Children's Society warns will fail to reach one million children in poverty and will create a «cliff - edge» where many families would be better off taking a pay cut.

«Under universal credit more people will receive support for childcare than they do now,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said.

In fact some groups, like single parents, will have even less of an incentive to work under Universal Credit than under the old system.

Guidance about free school meals and transitional protection arrangements for them under Universal Credit.

Under universal credit they can lose 76p in every # 1 compared to 73p under the tax credit system.

Under Universal Credit we'll ensure accurate statistics on claimants» nationality are collected.

Overall, under universal credit a self - employed claimant can be worse off than an employed claimant doing a similar job and earning the same amount of money.

New analysis published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found that slightly more children from low - income households will be eligible for free school meals (FSMs) under universal credit, than under the previous system — an increase of roughly 50,000 children (or four per cent).

«We estimate that around 160,000 children, 13 per cent of those entitled under the legacy system, will lose entitlement under a universal credit system, while about 210,000, equivalent to 16 per cent of the number entitled under the legacy system, stand to gain entitlement for free school meals under universal credit.»

Schools Week revealed at the weekend that pupils with a household income of up to # 55,000 would become eligible to claim free meals under universal credit, because of the complex way the new system works.

However, for many it'll be more beneficial to start claiming tax credits NOW as you may be worse off under universal credit.