Rent increase and transitional protection

Hi Twentyfold

Here is an explanation from Entitledto.co.uk as to why your UC will reduce with the erosion of your Transitional Element:-

Why is the transitional protection element temporary?
Your transitional protection element will be eroded/reduced penny for penny as your Universal Credit or Pension Credit award increases. This means you won’t receive any increase in your Universal Credit or Pension Credit award until your transitional protection element is reduced to £0.

Your Universal Credit award might increase, and therefore your transitional element reduce, if for example:

your rent increases, leading to an increase in your housing element
the local housing allowance rates increase, leading to an increase in your housing element
a new element is added to your Universal Credit award
annual uprating each April increases the Universal Credit rates
The exception is a new or increased childcare element as this doesn't reduce your transitional element.

The transitional protection element doesn’t reduce until you have been receiving Universal Credit for at least a month but, from your second assessment period onwards, any reductions are made in the same period an increase occurs.

The transitional protection element won't change if your earnings fluctuate (unless you are affected by the administrative earnings threshold rule described below) but the amount of Universal Credit you are eligible for may change based on your earnings in the usual way.

David

Hi Twentyfold

This system was devised by previous Tory governments to cut the Benefits bill regardless of fairness. You only have to read the views of the former Tory Benefits minister Ian Duncan Smith to see that the motives are.

David