Issues for people with disabilities in Universal Credit (UC)

6 July 2011

Welfare Reform Bill June 2011

This briefing covers:

a brief introduction into how Universal Credit is structured
how extra support for disabled people is going to be incorporated into Universal Credit
five tables indicating within the following groups, who we believe will gain and who will lose from Universal Credit compared to support in the current means tested system:
- adults in the support group
- adults in the work related activity group working less than 16 hours
- adults with significant impairment but found fit for work under work capability assessment
- families with children receiving higher rate care or severely visually impaired children
- families of children in receipt of disability living allowance (except those receiving higher rate of care component and severely visually impaired children).