Government guidance on the new law around increases in the SDP transitional element have been published. These are increases where an SDP element or amount are in payment or due and certain elements were lost from
some of the legacy benefits.
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The guidance also advises
'If the TSDPE (or the Transitional SDP Amount) has already eroded to nil, then the Additional Amount will become a new TSDPE (this cannot apply for the newly migrated cohort from 14/02/24, as there could not have been a chance for erosion to occur).'
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