Research and analysis

Universal Credit managed migration and reduced Housing Benefit backdating period: Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 33

This research presents findings on preparations for Universal Credit managed migration and the effects of reducing the Housing Benefit (HB) backdating period.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 22 March 2018

Documents

Findings from the Local Authority Insight Survey: Wave 33: Universal Credit managed migration and reduced Housing Benefit backdating period

Ref: ISBN 978 1 911003 88 5, RR951

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Summary: Findings from the Local Authority Insight Survey: Wave 33: Universal Credit managed migration and reduced Housing Benefit backdating period

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Details

The local authority insight survey gathers feedback from local authority benefit managers on topics of interest to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Wave 33 of the survey examined:

• local authority preparations for Universal Credit managed migration – under this process, from 2019, HB cases managed by local authorities will move onto Universal Credit, which is managed by DWP
• the effects of reducing the HB backdating period from 6 months to one month – this change was introduced in April 2016 to bring working age HB processes in line with Universal Credit processes

Authors: Joanne Maher, Tim Buchanan and Thomas Leach (National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)).

Published 22 March 2018