Date: 3 March 2025
If you receive Employment Support Allowance (IR-ESA) or IR-ESA with Housing Benefit, you will receive a ‘migration notice’ by the end of December 2025. This letter will inform you that your current benefits are ending and invite you to apply for Universal Credit instead.
You don’t need to do anything until you receive your migration notice. Once you receive it, don’t ignore it as your existing benefits will stop on the deadline date listed in the letter.
If you would like some advice, please contact our Money Matters Team at [email protected], or visit our website for more information: www.saxonweald.com/money-matters/universal-credit-managed-migration.
If you already receive Universal Credit, remember to report your rent change on or soon after 7 April 2025. To report the change, you must log onto your online journal and complete the ‘Confirm your housing costs’ to-do action. If you report this change before 7 April 2025 or you don’t report it via the to-do action, the rent change will not be recorded, and you could lose out on any additional payments.
Use an online benefits calculator to check what support you may be entitled to: www.gov.uk/benefits-calculators.
