Universal Credit (UC) transitional protection - What is Universal Credit (UC) transitional protection?
Transitional Protection tops up your Universal Credit. It is only available to certain groups.
- Last reviewed 20 September 2023
What is Universal Credit (UC) transitional protection?
Transitional Protection is an extra 'transitional' amount which tops up your Universal Credit award so that you are not substantially worse off when you move onto Universal Credit.
Transitional Protection is only for some people.
Most people who are getting Universal Credit at the moment are people who were claiming Benefits that are being replaced by Universal Credit. See full definition and a change in their circumstances meant they had to make a new benefit claim. These people are called ' Having to make a new claim for Universal Credit due to a change of circumstance. See full definition '. Transitional Protection is not available to them unless they were getting Severe Disability Premium at the time they claimed Universal Credit.
Transitional protection is only available to two groups of people:
- People who are moved over to Universal Credit even though nothing has happened which makes them start a new benefit claim. These people are called ' When a legacy benefit claim is transferred to Universal Credit. See full definition '.
- People who were getting Severe Disability Premium at the time they claimed Universal Credit.
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