The transitional element is a top-up payment available for some people moving from the older legacy benefits system to Universal Credit. It is only added for people who have been ‘manged migrated’ and where they would be entitled to less under Universal Credit than from their current legacy benefits.
However, if your Universal Credit entitlement increases (for example, due to an annual increase in benefit rates, a new element being included in your award or your rent increasing), your transitional element will be reduced by the amount of the increase. Changes to your childcare costs will not reduce your transitional element.
Once awarded, the transitional element will not increase each year like benefit rates can. Your transitional element will only ever be reduced, so that in effect your income from Universal Credit is frozen until it becomes nil. Once the transitional element has reduced to nil it will no longer be included with your UC award. www.entitledto.co.uk/help/Transitional-p...ion-Universal-Credit
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