Universal Credit calculations following temporary periods of employed earning

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Florence Elizabeth Constance Daisley

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please provide all / any document which contains the generic information, calculation, table or scale that is applied in order to calculate the universal credit entitlement of an eligible claimant making a subsequent claim after a period as an employed earner has ended before 6 months have elapsed.

To help you with this request, I am seeking to ascertain the mathematical operation that is used to calculate the entitlement to universal credit, if any, when a claimant ends a claim, takes up employment of fewer than 6 months duration and then makes a new claim because they have zero income due to their employment ending.

In effect, I am seeking to establish to effect of earned income deemed 'surplus earnings' for the purposes of UC calculations.

Yours faithfully,

Florence Elizabeth Constance Daisley

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Dear Florence Daisley,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 10th
March.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team

Florence Elizabeth Constance Daisley

Dear [email address] on behalf of DWP Central FOI Team,

Thanks for providing the calculation and link.

Yours sincerely,

Florence Elizabeth Constance Daisley

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Florence Elizabeth Constance Daisley left an annotation ()

It should be noted that the 'de minimis' amount of £2500, quoted in the reply, was correct at the time of the request and the response.

It appears likely that the the de minimis will be set at £300 from April 2019. This should be used to perform the calculation.