Transitional protection when moving to universal credit

pamelab21

Our Dd is due to start school this year and we currently pay extra to top up her childcare nursery hours as I work part time and OH full time.
We also have a younger child and we also pay for her nursery childcare too.
DD will have to go to a holiday club when she starts school as we have no one that can help, I can see that this would be counted as childcare costs and we may still get help with this but my question is, entitledto tell us what we would get and what we would get if on Universal Credit with and without transitional protection. We have not yet been moved to that but would advising them of a childcare cost change mean that we would lose that protection or is it only for a major change like a loss of job or relationship split etc?
Hope that makes sense, basically asking if we would be forced to move to universal credit and lose protection when her childcare costs drop and we have to phone them to tell them.

When_the_going_gets_tough

Universal credit is running so far behind that I think it would be difficult to be precise as to how it will work in practice - currently only being trialled for single childless claimants. I think it will be a few years till it comes in tbh

ArtoDeeto

I'm in the thick of it and that is jumping the gun by years - don't even think the "trial" centres have gone beyond the basic single person/nice and easy situation.

Pedent

There's a government briefing note that specifies the changes in circumstances that will result in a loss of transitional protection at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181344/ucpbn-transitional-protection.pdf

The following occurrences are defined as a significant change in circumstance:

• a partner leaving/joining the household;
• a sustained (3 month) earnings drop beneath the level of work that is
expected of them according to their claimant commitment;
• the Universal Credit award ending; and/or
• one (or both) members of the household stopping work.

That isn't set in stone of course.