Issuing a written statement in the House of Commons today, Stephen Timms highlights that the Programme’s latest statistics show that almost a million households have been notified of the need to make the transition to universal credit since 2022
Completing the Implementation of Universal Credit – questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-11-12/hcws205
DWP will steadily increase the number of migration notices being sent to people receiving ESA over the next months and are aiming to issue 63,000 migration notices each month from February, sending the final notices in early December 2025 and fully moving people to Universal Credit and closing legacy benefits by the end of March 2026.
As DWP moves into this final phase for Move to UC, it will make the transition from delivering ‘Move to UC’ from a Programme-led approach to a ‘business as usual’ operation. I am therefore announcing today the intention to formally close the Move to UC Programme by the end of March 2025, as the work of the Programme will be complete by then.
