Universal credit : what you need to know (6th edition)

Universal credit is the biggest change to our social security system in over sixty years, affecting millions of people with children or on a low income and now fully rolled out across the country.

Learn what you need to know about the new benefit with the brand-new edition of our bestselling, easyto-follow guide.

You don't need to be an expert - with its help, you can deal with your clients' queries.

It includes all the latest rules, including its introduction and how people will be migrated from the old means-tested benefits, how to work out the amount of benefit, how to calculate earnings, the 'two-child limit', the work related requirements and sanctions.

There is specific information for particular groups of people, such as lone parents and people with a disability, and the book contains dozens of examples illustrating how the rules apply in practice and plenty of tactical guidance on what to do if things go wrong