Universal credit rollout maps.

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https://www.lgbp.co.uk/ucpc/ucpcjul15.html is the rollout of UC currently.
https://www.lgbp.co.uk/ucpc/ucpcdec15.html And by december.

As can be seen in the first map - single childless fit nonpregnant new benefit claimants are at the moment over a wide spread of the country expected to claim UC, not JSA. (there are a whole heap of other conditions, it's not quite 'young single brits living at home with their parents' - but almost).
Going to a couple - but otherwise similar perhaps with kids- the area now affected shrinks drastically, to an area around manchester, and one in the north of scotland.
The vast majority of the country is not covered.

If you don't fit into the above narrow categories (there are 20 or so exclusions) - at the moment only small parts of the SM5 and SM6 postcodes are affected.

By december, for single unemployed people, with all of the exclusions - it's rolled out over essentially the entire country.
Couples are still only around Manchester and the north of scotland.

The majority of claimants with 'complex' cases are only affected in several partial postcode areas around Croydon.

The current exclusion list for UC across most of the country for singles is:
The claimant must:-

• be single (couples can claim certain areas)
• not be responsible for a child or for a young person under 20 who is in non-advanced education or training (claimants with children can claim in certain areas)
• be aged between 18 years and 60 years and six months
• live at their usual address, in an area where Universal Credit is available
• not be homeless, in supported or temporary accommodation, nor a homeowner
• be a British citizen with a National Insurance number
• be fit for work
• not have applied for a fitness for work note
• consider themself fit for work
• not be pregnant nor have given birth within the last 15 weeks
• not be receiving Jobseeker's Allowance(JSA)
• , Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Income Support (IS), Incapacity Benefit (IB), Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA), Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
• not be awaiting a decision on a claim for Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Income Support (IS), Housing Benefit (HB), Child Tax Credit (CTC) or Working Tax Credit (WTC)
• not be appealing against a decision of non-entitlement to Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Income Support (IS)
• not be awaiting the outcome of an application to revise a decision of non-entitlement to Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Income Support (IS) or Housing Benefit (HB)
• not have any caring responsibilities (such as for a disabled person)
• not be self-employed, a company director or part of a limited liability partnership
• not be in education or on a training course of any kind
• not have a person acting on their behalf over the claim
• have at least one suitable account that DWP can pay the money into (including any form of credit union account)
• not live in the same household as a member of the regular or reserve forces who is away on duty
• have lived in the UK for the last two years, and not have been abroad for more than four weeks continuously during that time
• not be required to pay child maintenance via the Child Support Agency
• not have savings in excess of £6,000
• not be an approved foster parent (even if they currently have no foster children)
• not be expecting to adopt a child in the next two months
• not expect to receive take home pay of more than £338 in the next month
• not expect to receive any earnings from self employment in the next month

If they don't meet any of these conditions, they will claim a legacy benefit - JSA/...