The rules are being changed by The Social Security and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023.
From 29th June 2023, a couple can only be entitled to the higher transitional SDP rate so long as no-one receives Carers Allowance or gets the carer element of UC for either of them in their first assessment period.
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