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Universal Credit award higher than Tax Credits award
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".. the government rejected the recommendation, mainly on administrative grounds."Like I thought - not easy to legislate for that, but mainly because it would have been too complicated for the UC computer to refuse an element to someone who is entitled to that element under normal rules.
The computer would award HE each month and to deduct the HE again would need a manual intervention each month for each migrated claim with a savings disregard.
So they decided to just let it ride and as a consequence a few people will get a lot more with UC for 12 months than they did with Tax Credits.0
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