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2. Universal Credit - Wikipedia

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   Universal Credit logo. Universal Credit is a United Kingdom social security payment. It is means-tested and is replacing and combining six benefits, for working-age households with a low income: income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, and Income Support; Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit; and Housing Benefit.

3. Universal Credit must change to tackle long-term sickness ...

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   Universal Credit is a single benefit payment for working-age people. It was introduced in 2013 to replace a range of different benefits for unemployed and low-paid people and the aim was to make ...

4. Universal Credit: Thousands in NI to move to new ... - AOL

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   Universal Credit is a single benefit payment for working-age people. The Department for Communities is going to write to 71,000 affected households. Universal Credit: Thousands in NI to move to ...

5. Jobseeker's Allowance - Wikipedia

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   In order to make a claim, a customer must have actually paid NI contributions for the same number of weeks in one of the last two tax years (the remaining 18 months could be either paid, or credited contributions). When entitlement to JSA(C) is exhausted, Universal Credit may then have become payable if eligible (see below).

6. Working Tax Credit - Wikipedia

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   Working Tax Credit. Working Tax Credit ( WTC) is a state benefit in the United Kingdom made to people who work and receive a low income. It was introduced in April 2003 and is a means-tested benefit. Despite the name, tax credits are not to be confused with tax credits linked to a person's tax bill, because they are used to top-up low wages.

7. Child tax credit - Wikipedia

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   The credit is often linked to the number of dependent children a taxpayer has and sometimes the taxpayer's income level. For example, with the Child Tax Credit in the United States, only families making less than $400,000 per year may claim the full CTC. Similarly, in the United Kingdom, the tax credit is only available for families making less ...

8. Child benefits in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   By the end of 1978 the rate had been increased to £3/week for each child, with an additional £2/week payable to lone-parent families. In 1979 the Child Tax Allowance was removed, the value of the allowance taken up in higher child benefit payments, now £4/week, plus £2.50/week extra for lone-parent families.

9. Personal Independence Payment - Wikipedia

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   History. PIP was introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (which have been repeatedly amended). It began to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England.